Another one of those stories that makes a paragraph on page 12 of your newspaper maybe and is written as a casual news piece with no bigger picture contextualisation: the price of bread.
The price of bread, cereals, pasta, pastry and flour in the UK is rising as a result of a 10 year high in the cost of wheat ‘partly due to a drought in Australia’. Other causes pointed out here are ‘soaring demand for food from fast-growing economies such as China and India and the switch of large amounts of land in Brazil from agriculture to bio-fuel production’. This increase in the cost of wheat has exacerbated pressures on bakers already dealing with the knock on effect of increased oil prices. The cost of Eggs, cheese and dairy products ware also likely to rise as farmers have to spend more for feed.
In other words – food is getting more expensive because of global climate change and the peaking of global energy supply.
Another one of those stories that makes a paragraph on page 12 of your newspaper maybe and is written as a casual news piece with no bigger picture contextualisation: the price of bread.
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