Should the Obama administration pass legislation to control the price of food?

Yes, not only should the price be controlled. Obama himself should design diets for all Americans that we should be forced to stick-to. Most Americans are just too plain stupid to know what's best to eat and that's why a smart man such as Obama should make that decision for us.

We are the Borg. Resistance is futile. You will be assimilated.

Actually, I heard that the Obama administration bought up millions of dollars worth of tomatoes to keep the price higher instead of letting the price fall, which might have helped people.

Cost is not the same thing as price, and when the government gets involved with trying to manipulate prices, scarcity emerges as the result.

The person who mentioned the problems with poor communities and access to food has a great point. I live in a suburban ghetto that used to be a nice neighborhood before the Fed got involved in the housing market and started all of the urban gentrification that pushed the poor out of the city and into the suburbs. A lot of the people around here are fat. Many of them don't have cars (I don't either), and they eat a lot at 7-11. I always see them eating these terrible hot-dogs and such all of the time. It's a real pain in behind to lug groceries onto the train or bus. They used to have grocery stores around here, but they are all closed up or have become other stores. I think that any sane grocery store owner would not want to have a store here because of the ghetto mentality. A lot of people here are convicts and thiefs, and they steal a lot from stores. Recently, the worker at the 7-11 chased some thiefs with a baseball bat as I approached the store.

Thanks big government!

I feel sorry for the people who used to live here. They were middle class, and the neighborhood was nicer. A lot of the people were religious, too. While the urban areas became outrageously expensive, this neighborhood became a multi-ethnic ghetto. I'm sure that many urban dwellers saw their house prices double and triple while around here, the price probably went down a lot.

None of this can be seperated from issues of health, food, obesity, education, and government interference, which is why I bring it up.

But the government seems to do whatever the heck it wants to these days....

I also want to say that eating healthy is not expensive if you cook a lot, but time is money of course. I used to cook more. Meat typically cost more than vegetables. Frozen fruits and vegetables are a great alternative. Salads are easy to make, though, and they are great!

no, Obama and his wife thinks everyone should look like Ken and Barbie.

just wait till he is out of office and everything will be lower again, no kidding

I had found receipt's form Korgers form back in 1999

the items were milk, bread, coffee, eggs the total was $10.78

had another receipts form Kroger's form 2004

the items were milk, eggs, butter, apples, cheese the total was $5.62

and today

I had spent $40.00 for three bags of groceries,, not enough for the week.

there is another factor to consider as well the size of the product.

The packaging and fruit and veggies are smaller and cost more.

A can of Pringles for example

is $ 1.59 at most places. for 6.0z can

now it is still $ 1.59 but it is now 4oz.

do not get me started about cereal, couple of years ago of box Cheerios or Corn Flakes would last a week and get about 12 bowls out of it. Now you have buy 4 boxes to last the week, since they are half the size.

Thank goodness for Costco and Sam club at least there a box of cereal can feed a family of 5 for a week or two.

So in order to feed a family of five you would have to buy double for the week. So if the food company's went back to the regular size maybe many Americans will not be straving.

Third reason why food cost so much that is outsource imported more than before.

If we grow more of our own food here in America and Feed American first before the poor in other countries or buying the farm land to build empty homes and empty shopping mall, Just maybe the food will cost less.

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yes you are very smart. You see this mass productive system made junk food cheep. in china, a country that has just industrialized and knows about health now, poor farmers eat the little rice they grow and vegetables and pick it by hand! they occationally get there hands on some meat.. It makes them healthy but they are still malnourished, they have to sell crop. In america, farmers etc. Corn farmers keep some crop then sell the rest. THen by cheap chunks of meat that were mass slaughtered in a giant fan then 100 people in an assembly line packaging it and semi-cleaning it up. Plus they load it up with oil and salt and preservatives to make it taste better. In china, a second world country that kind of stuff does not exist OUTSIDE of the cities. Since america had so much rich people in the 1800s yet so much poor people, they could build high tech factories and hire poor workers. Mass producing spinach is hard because it expires quickly.. they cant preserve it like spam or a hotdog. "why hasnt china used mass production for food" you ask, simple 1. i think they realize its not healthy and 2. they are focusing more on growing and want to invest there money on factories that will sell to foriegn countries and china. China does package alot of food though. andyoursecond question, no the government should be involved with our health.

Poor families on fixed incomes also, generally, live in communities with little or no access to healthy food. Even if this is put in place, you'll have to add the price of gas or bus fare to the cost of your green peppers & blueberries. Controlling the price of healthy food will not fix the problem. Much more has to be addressed.

Cousins!

You know how important look the food and to feel safe we have to lokk windows full of goods.

A come back to our revolution 1789 the main reason was a very bad cropt during 1788 tempest wasted all .

Now big food companies and governement work together that to say sometime the governement will write bills to limit the price of usual food like milk,potatoes,flour letting feel that they work for the poeple fe but in fact enjoy as they rise the other prices to make more money on taxes.

They share the rise profits for owners of shares

Taxes for the governement you cannot imagine how they need money and it avoids to increase taxes poeple dislike more than the price of bread!

Here they are X pert to make money from the left tashe!!!!

Foods companies,monsanto electricity , water companies all insurances confused are not your friends they are the left tashes you understand

Typic socialist way of ruling

I guess maybe my answer is to simplistic, but I say no. Anything the government meddles in becomes a problem. I hit the farmers market or the little guy selling veggies/fruit on the side of the road. Great prices, fresh food no government involvement.

So now you want them to punish farmers even more?

If you skip the packaged foods and use a few coupons, you can save money in the long run. Canned and frozen vegetables have as much nutritional value as fresh, so you can use coupons on those and they'll keep longer.

The government doesn't belong in our diets. Anyone over 25 or 30 yrs. old out there still remember when it was the parents' job to feed their kids right?

Why not they control our money and make us buy their health insurance so that we stay healthy.

Why not control the cost on food to help us stay healthy.

Not likely to happen though because that would cut into their high taxes that we pay to fund their other goals of giving our money to other countries.

It's a no win deal for the American people.

Plain and Simple