Higher prices at the grocery store have many families wondering how they will get by should prices continue to climb as we have been warned they will. Luckily, grocers recognize this and are offering competitive weekly sales and brand names are joining this crusade with more advantageous coupon offerings. Even with these savings, there is one sneak attack that is rarely talked about. It isn’t just your imagination that package sizes are getting smaller, or when packing remains the same, many times the weight contained within them have been greatly reduced, sometimes as much as 25%. (Read More.....)
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The organic market expands up to 20% per year, as more people educate themselves of the health dangers of genetically engineered food. A family in Pasadena, California is making a living from selling produce grown in their yard to neighbors and restaurants. They grow 6,000 pounds of produce on 1/10th of an acre of cultivated land per year. As the economy collapses, many Americans are seeing that FOOD can be just as good as GOLD, if not better. Many Americans are starting to barter or sell produce grown in their yards to their local neighbors and farmer's markets. Some Americans are even bartering their produce for additional services they are needing monthly.
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While many world leaders have been wringing their hands about global warming, the truth is that the global deep freeze now ravaging North America, Europe and Asia is the biggest problem for agriculture right now. In fact, many analysts are now predicting that agricultural losses due to the unusually cold winter will lead to huge spikes in the price of food and massive food shortages in many areas of the world in 2010. 