Expensive Taste

By: The Editors

Foodways dependent on factory farming and global monocultural agriculture might be cheap in the short term, but we could pay heavily in the future.

Eggs: 38%: This year, a bout of avian flu has killed and forced the culling of 38 million chickens in the US, further driving up already-high prices.
Milk: 15.6%
Coffee: 20.3%: While most of the inflation where coffee is concerned has to do with shipping issues, inclement weather in Brazil — a major producer — has further embittered the situation.

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Eggs: 38% This year, a bout of avian flu has killed and forced the culling of 38 million chickens in the US, further driving up already-high prices. Milk: 15.6% [Fig. (Untitled)] Coffee: 20.3% While most of the inflation where coffee is concerned has to do with shipping issues, inclement weather in Brazil — a major producer — has further embittered the situation....

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