2007-07-09 04:59:18 · 26 answers · asked by Anonymous in Dining Out ➔ United States ➔ Other - US Dining Out
Because the price of fuel went up. When fuel goes up, it costs more to ship. Therefore, the costs are passed down to us. Now isn't that just special?
2007-07-09 05:01:38 · answer #1 · answered by Mommymonster 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It's because we're so differentiated from the labour it takes to grow / raise our food. How many people can honestly say they grew or caught what they had for breakfast/lunch or dinner? Very few if any. Almost everything we eat is produced so far from where we live, and even if you did grow your own veggies - you're certainly eating something in addition to those vegetables, maybe it's the salt or dressing you adorn a salad with or the spices you use to season a dish - those are certainly things you nor we ever grew or had a dealing in.
Food is so expensive (and will be more expensive in time) because their is a very limited area of land that can be used to cultivate and grow crops. What's left of the earth is land that is barren and can't support enough crops to feed the world's population. SO we have places in Africa, Asia and South America where people eat little or starve so that we (North Americans) can eat extra rations of food - because we can pay more for it, the food gets exported to us - rather then feeding the locals (who can't pay as much). Depending on where you live in your city, you could be paying twice or triple the amount as less affluent areas.
2007-07-09 12:16:41 · answer #2 · answered by I Think Things I would Never Say 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I can't believe it's not MORE expensive. I mean really, can you think of another item besides water we can't live without? Talk about constant demand.
Think of it this way, you'd have to have enough land to house beef pork and poultry and the land to grow the food to maintain them. You'd have to spend the time to feed and maintain the livestock and food crops. You also need extra land to grow your fruits and vegetables and the time to maintain and harvest them. Granted, you wouldn't need hundreds of acres just to feed your own family but still much more than most people have, and much more than is available if everyone wanted to do this. It's not a bad plan if you have the means, but if you have the means you probably have a job leaving little time for the farm. If your thinking your spouse could stay home and run the farm, well they might have something to say about that.
I think it's a great idea, but most people don't and are willing to pay for the food other people grow, and we find ourselves back at the top of the answer...
2007-07-09 12:14:58 · answer #3 · answered by Morgan M 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
It's expensive because the tax rates are going up because they need more money to pay for things like new roads, schools, improvements, and they didn't have enough money for food, so they are making the food prices go up to make more money on something they have less on
2007-07-09 12:03:39 · answer #4 · answered by Tren Lau 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Labor costs. Packaging costs(paper). Taxes. I know, our food is really expensive. Not even the dollar menu is cheap. What can you get with $4 on the dollar menu? only three things....there's tax. That's why broke college students like me suffer through college life with terrible dorm food. I haven't been to an actual restaurant in a while.
2007-07-09 12:03:17 · answer #5 · answered by gibsongtar101 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It's not expensive at all. The US has some of the lowest food cost per calorie in the world.
2007-07-09 12:01:32 · answer #6 · answered by Micromegas 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Globally we have very inexpensive food. As a matter of fact the government has to subsidize farmers in order to keep the prices from going way to low. I heard one of my professors say that if we utilized the land in the United States correctly, and the infrastructure were available to all countries, we could probably feed the whole world.
2007-07-09 12:18:50 · answer #7 · answered by billet7 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Corn production. I'm serious. It all goes back to corn. Corn prices are high. Corn makes ethanol, corn makes the high fructose corn syrup in most foods, corn is what feeds cattle and hogs and chickens. So there goes the beef, pork, chicken prices, and the prices of milk and eggs and dairy. If there's a corn by-product in it, the price is sky-rocketing right now.
2007-07-09 12:04:59 · answer #8 · answered by chefgrille 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
bc every year people get raises and so does the food. Things just cost more over time.
2007-07-09 12:02:40 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It depends on what you are talking about or where you go?
IN a better awakened world I think things would equalize out evenly and food would be NEAT and ethical and we could work on SAFER fertilizers etc etc
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2007-07-09 12:03:00 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋