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Re:Bank of England warns of 'apocalyptic' global food shortage by MandieD on Tuesday May 17, 2022 @02:57AM (#31406897)
We still have vegetable oil shortages in German supermarkets, though we’ve at least gotten to the point where there’s always plenty of 750ml bottles of organic canola oil for 5-7 EUR, but store brand sunflower or canola oil for 3 EUR/liter gets cleared out pretty quickly, despite purchase limits.

Before Covid, store brand oil was about 1 EUR/liter.

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Re:Bank of England warns of 'apocalyptic' global food shortage by Ekaros on Tuesday May 17, 2022 @05:40AM (#31408044)
1€ litre... Using that would be cheaper than diesel here... Sometimes considered this specially if one where to have car which accepts it relatively well...
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Re:Bank of England warns of 'apocalyptic' global food shortage by codefreeordie on Tuesday May 17, 2022 @01:12PM (#31413632)
actually, that's one of the causes of food-price inflation -- we've been increasingly using various food-supply inputs as biofuel-supply inputs, and it turns out that the energy market is willing to outbid the food market sometimes.

(It's very much not the cause, but it is a cause)

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