Wednesday, September 12, 2007

Flour

The cost of flour was $180 per bag last week. Yesterday it rose to $280. People are scared and manifested their confusion and displeasure. Customers cannot afford the sharp increase that bakers must charge to make the same little profit. It is the poor who suffer this the most. I don't know the why nor the wherefore that could explain the increase in price. The phrase "give us this day our daily bread" suddenly takes on a whole new meaning.
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  1. KateSeptember 13, 2007 at 5:39 AM

    We need the new bread of Exodus 16. You can't store it up. It rots. You can't exchange it. The only bread of life is ultimately the bread of Christ's grace. It infuriates me that bread as a commodity, is the bread of death.

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  2. PortiaSeptember 17, 2007 at 4:48 AM

    Prices of grains all over the world are going up. It's because corn sells for more when sold for fuel. Farmers are planting more corn instead of other grains because it pays better. Pasta just went up in price in the States. This is the sad result of what happens when we mix our energy-food source and our energy-transportation source.

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