Shrinkflation is bad enough as companies quietly shrink package sizes while keeping (or hiking) prices. They have another scheme at play too. Have you heard of skimpflation? This is even worse.
That's the term for when they swap out quality ingredients for cheaper junk, stripping nutrition while the package looks the same and the price doesn't drop. Instead of whole, real ingredients listed as number one or two on the ingredient list, they're pumping in more water, bulking up with modified corn starch or other cheap thickeners/fillers, and downgrading the actual food. We're getting nutritionally hollow products that taste off or feel inferior, all so big corporations can pad their record profits.
This should be criminal. It's straight-up deception. Our entire food system needs a massive overhaul. Lobbyists and corporations shouldn't get to do this unchecked while we pay the price (literally and figuratively).
What changes have you noticed? Since the saga of 2020 I've quit buying all snacks and I minimize my time in the center of the store. I shop the perimeter and only dip in to grab baking supplies. My daughter told me the other day that we are a house of ingredients and not a house of snacks. I take that as a compliment and stick to whole meals and home-made snacks or treats.
Much love,
Lynn
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Most problems today I think come from central banking (Federal Reserve). Once you inflate money and take away its value, people have to start cutting corners and resort to corruption in order to make the same profit values when the money was not inflated. The USD has lost about 99% of its value. Take plastic for example. We know its bad but why are so many containers in plastic? Because it costs more to transport glass because of the weight. It costs more because the money has less value. Plastic was a cheap alternative but t makes health suffer. Feminism is another thing. I think it was about getting women into the workforce. If you do that you can double your tax revenue. There are probably many examples of things like this.
ReplyDeleteI agree! The Fed Reserve needs to go and take it's usury with it.
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