It started with the coalition government coming after your vitamins and supplements…lead into them wanting to reduce methane - which we all know means culling of herds to extinction and now they are coming after your vegetables too.
The New P2 plastic ban would thrust us back into 1970s-80s era for fruit and vegetables where a lot of items weren’t available year round, seasonally and locally grown only, and rotted in the grocery bags before you got them home.
On top of this, because of the added spoilage, in store, you can count on any item that is available to be a lot more expensive.
You see, in the 3% earnings that grocery stores are making, things like theft, spoilage and returned items that cannot be resold are factored in…and when you increase one of these factors, stores will consequentially push these prices on to YOU.
Now…look at affordability, where we’re at right now.
A lot of people aren’t able to buy a lot of fruits and only essentials on some veg and are instead subbing in ZERO value fillers to complete their meals…again, just like we did in the 70s-80s. Rice, pasta or potatoes as meal fillers…potatoes as available.
And when you consider that the processed grains are leading to the on-growing problem of obesity and malnutrition…you’d have to wonder why anybody would make these more abundant for consumption by driving up the costs and lowering availability of better quality foods…if they cared about their health.
As for beef, in case you missed it, 3 days ago the government released this:
A carrot method for farmers to implement changes that would reduce methane from their cows…this, before they come to the stick portion of the carrot and stick reward system, where they outlaw beef altogether.
Not to mention that an “incentive program”, will force another tax in place to actually be able to offset the incentive to begin with. This, of course, proposed by the people who believed that the budget will balance itself…who seemingly forget that if they either pay out more or offer a credit to somebody…the money still has to come from someplace.
For those into keto or carnivory, the one thing you can appreciate is that beef is the most nutrient dense of the animal based proteins and can sustain life, without the need for anything else. No carrots, peas nor potatoes required.
Just a slab of meat…or as Dr. J. Salisbury prescribed in The Relation of Alimentation and Disease - a boil-fried beefsteak patty.
They’ll tell you that you can still get all of these same proteins and amino acids inside of synthetic meat, from vegetables, beans and legumes…and while this may be true, there isn’t the same abundance available and there are additional factors to consider in forming a well balanced diet, without the use of quality animal based proteins.
Figuring out the complexity of nutrition is already difficult for most. Finding the time for shop, prep, storage makes this even more daunting.
Really, all these are plans for failure and worsening health.
No good will come from this…
And the intended - reduction of GHGs, Methane and Carbon dioxide…there is still no single shred of evidence to prove that if we get these to absolute zero, anything will change with the weather.
In addition to an increase on CPP, adding in CPP2, quadrupling the Carbon Tax, an almost surety of another interest rate hike in 2024 and all other consumables by increased Carbon Tax…your food is going to be a lot more expensive.
All of this brought to you by people who cannot be so inept they don’t realize the consequences of these actions…they are doing this because they absolutely do!
You can pretend that the government doesn’t want you dead…buuuuuuuuuuut…
You can pretend that they don't want you dead...