Farm subsidies make food cheap for the labor force. Remove them and watch food prices blow through the roof. Corn farmers are growing corn well below their cost to produce only profiting with subsidies. Remove the subsidies and the production of Corn, Wheat and Soy would plummet and the price would then go up. The labor pool buys food in boxes and packages of which the majority are made out of ingredients synthesized from corn, wheat and soy. Oil costs are the biggest factor in food being more expensive today not Ethanol. If you look at the charts food prices started to go up a full 4 years after Ethanol went into gas. Every element in the production of the big three involves oil. Ethanol plays a role in it but the ethanol buy products are recycled into animal feed. The bigger issue right now is low inventory and high demand. Everyone and their mother wants to plant corn right now but they have nowhere to store it. Storage facilities have only grown 10% since the Ethanol went into gas in 2006. If you are filling up your garbage can weekly with food packaging you are eating poorly. Meat and vegetables do not have HFC‘s or added sugars, whole grains come in bulk packaging and you can bring your own containers to most places selling. Read up on the Pacific garbage patch and what plastics are doing to our oceans and wildlife as you open that plastic soda bottle. Eat like a cave man and buy your food locally. Hippies were right about some things.
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