More high class problems
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“well, if the little people wouild just wear their masks like they’re supposed to , they couldn’t eat meat! Problem solved.” Jennifer Pstaki to FWIW
That’s okay, though, because (a) Americans shouldn't be eating meat anyway: it’s gonna kill the earth by four years ago; and (b), food prices, just like oil prices, are caused by big corporations, and Biden will control them by bringing anti-trust actions against the producers.
The Biden administration is planning a crackdown on the four companies that control 55-85 percent of U.S. chicken, beef and pork production for alleged “price fixing” during the pandemic, according to a Wednesday fact sheet released by the White House. The White House argues these producers are seeing record profits during the pandemic “at the expense of consumers, farmers and ranchers.”
“We’ve helped sustain this market, and it’s frustrating to see these companies turn around and raise prices,” Bharat Ramamurti, the deputy director of the White House’s National Economic Council, told Reuters. “What we see here smacks of pandemic profiteering and that is the behavior the administration finds concerning.”
The administration plans to address the prices by providing $1.4 billion in funding to smaller meat producers across the U.S., printing more money it doesn’t have as well as enforce antitrust and price-fixing laws more stringently, according to the White House.
Inflation in the U.S. has surged to a three-decade high since Biden took office. White House press secretary Jen Psaki and other administration officials have argued the inflation is “transitory” and will be gone by the end of 2022, but many experts say it could be here to stay for much longer.
Americans have seen prices spike in all aisles of grocery stores across the country, not just in meat production. Consumer prices in the U.S. rose 5.4 percent year-over-year as of early August.
