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Voron (voron@mstdn.party)'s status on Sunday, 30-Apr-2023 16:02:44 JST Voron

Gotta love this article that is all head scratching about how food commodity prices are falling….but food prices for consumers aren’t going down.
Like gee whiz skippy, it’s because massive corporations have monopolies and they are just CHOOSING to jack up prices, look at the profits! Writing an article like this and not mentioning soaring profits of these companies is journalistic malpractice
https://apnews.com/article/food-prices-inflation-ukraine-war-economy-8daa7e3d92666d290d87932dc8f25a94
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  Food prices fall on world markets but not on kitchen tables
  
  Around the world, food prices are persistently, painfully high. Puzzlingly, too. On global markets, the price of grains, vegetable oil, dairy and other agricultural commodities has fallen steadily for months. But the relief hasn’t made it to the real world of shopkeepers, street vendors and families trying to make ends meet. It's seen in a restaurant outside Nairobi that skimps on the size of popular flatbread to save on cooking oil. Cash-strapped Pakistanis are reluctantly going vegetarian, dropping beef and chicken from their diets because they can no longer afford meat. In Budapest, Hungary, a cafe has pulled burgers and fries off the menu to dodge the high cost of oil and beef.

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