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Schneed10 · 04-29-2008, 10:45 AM

It's a number of things with food prices, these are the main ones:

- As mentioned, gas. Shipping costs, and energy expenses required to process foods, are up.

- The fuel industry is buying up more corn for ethanol. So corn prices especially have gone up. Corn is also used to feed livestock, so that higher cost gets passed on to the prices of just about every kind of meat, poultry, and dairy you can think of.

- Global demand. The economic development in China and India has led to growth in the number of citizens wealthy enough to eat meats, which further increases the demand for corn/feed.

04-29-2008, 10:45 AM	#2
Schneed10 A Dude Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Newtown Square, PA Age: 46 Posts: 12,458	Re: Food Prices It's a number of things with food prices, these are the main ones: - As mentioned, gas. Shipping costs, and energy expenses required to process foods, are up. - The fuel industry is buying up more corn for ethanol. So corn prices especially have gone up. Corn is also used to feed livestock, so that higher cost gets passed on to the prices of just about every kind of meat, poultry, and dairy you can think of. - Global demand. The economic development in China and India has led to growth in the number of citizens wealthy enough to eat meats, which further increases the demand for corn/feed. __________________ God made certain people to play football. He was one of them.