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you're not wrong on every point. but the unfortunate addendum is that the essentials are also too expensive.
Well, also yes, but also I can't just say "don't buy food". That's unrealistic.
But if grocery stores ONLY relied on me, their profits would have fell off a cliff 5 years ago. Thus making it impossible for them to think of raising prices on ANYTHING.
But yes, the ideal solution is to just grow our own food and be self sufficient, but that's only realistic for like 5% of people.
Growing your own food, even in a small garden, really shows how bad climate change is. There's more bugs sooner, the plants get way too hot and/or get a late freeze, or your water restrictions mean they wither before you can harvest.
Doing my own backyard garden had been a real challenge, and there's no way to live off of it. It's simply supplemental. I would starve to death in the winter. But I'm still trying!
last year, half our tomatoes never turned red because it was both too hot and never got hot enough for the tomatoes. we had a lot of fried green tomatoes.
Just eat the bugs!
Seriously though, look into canning and indoor growing and it'll help over the winter. If you have enough time and resources to put into it, you might actually be able to drastically reduce how much you buy. More easily said than done though.
.....trying to starve to death? Interesting priorities I guess.
Do you seriously believe they are trying to starve to death and not trying to grow their own food in their garden?
It was a wordplay joke based on the quote that they attached.
Are... you serious?
No. I'm making a joke......damn, absurdity really is dead in 2026.
Absurdity is reality now, so satirical stuff just doesn't hit the same anymore.
Well if someone described your garden as "simply supplemental," wouldn't you?