backandbeyond
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Food is still moving across the planet at a furious rate so any shortages people are seeing in their particular country is in part due to the bidding auction nature or things. If ten million cashed up inhabitants of China are prepared to pay more for grains or meat than you are then they get it. Here our lamb is more expensive than prime cuts of beef often and that because the Arabs, and now the Chinese, are bidding more and the farmers sell it to them.
Same with our dairy, butter went up overnight to $4.50 a Lb and the stupid parrots in the supermarkets said it was because of the drought. That was 5 years ago and the price hasn't come down. About that time they had built a huge new airpost, Brisbane West, and cargo jumbos arrive and leave all the time bringing in chinese eBay purchases etc and departing full of local butter, cheese, etc. I still eat butter but the poorer people in the sh*tty suburbs are probably eating Margarine made from imported Chinese Canola oil.
Same with our dairy, butter went up overnight to $4.50 a Lb and the stupid parrots in the supermarkets said it was because of the drought. That was 5 years ago and the price hasn't come down. About that time they had built a huge new airpost, Brisbane West, and cargo jumbos arrive and leave all the time bringing in chinese eBay purchases etc and departing full of local butter, cheese, etc. I still eat butter but the poorer people in the sh*tty suburbs are probably eating Margarine made from imported Chinese Canola oil.