• SamuelRJankis@sh.itjust.works
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    16 hours ago

    The article and a lot of discussion these days about food prices has been focused on corporate profits. While true there is a substantially undeniable issue of Climate change really causing a negative impact on yields.

    People can criticize the Carbon tax especially after Trudeau tried to squeeze more votes from manipulating it. But saying climate change isn’t here and noticeably effecting people lives is a insanity from the right wing politicians.

    Orange - Drought and disease

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citrus_greening_disease

    Beef - Drought

    Coffee - Drought

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      16 hours ago

      What about cocoa beans? The price of chocolate has nearly doubled. At least those of no name chocolate bars.

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        15 hours ago

        If I recall correctly, last year’s cacao crop failed pretty hard too, although I don’t remember whether or not the reason was related to climate change.

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        15 hours ago

        A lot of no name chocolate doesn’t even contain that much actual cocao anymore.

        I was mostly just keeping it to the list in the article. But it’s really it’s most things by the second or third degree.