Everyone that talks about grocery price gouging needs to thresh some grain, or butcher an animal. I would not plant, fertilize, harvest, wash, sort, grind, package, ship, warehouse, market, and sell a bag of flour for $6. Yet, there it is on the shelf.
I don’t know about Canada, but here in the US we have food subsidies. Just one example, but they want poor kids to have access to enough nutrition especially calcium; it’s a good thing with bad unintended consequences. The government pays down a couple dollars on each gallon of milk, but only for mega corporations. So you go buy a gallon of beautiful raw milk from your neighbor, it’s $9. You go to the store, the watered down 2% crap with a bunch of pesticides mixed in is $4. They’re both just a gallon of milk. People think the raw bespoke milk is more because it’s designer. They’re right about half of it. The $9 one is raised with love, raised sustainably and cheaply, and doesn’t travel more than a mile before it’s in your fridge. The real difference? The other gets a $5 subsidy from the fed.
Jed
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