Post your recommendations for keeping grocery costs under control.

[Chainfire]

17. As long as we have to eat, it is beyond our control

I believe that most of the price rises that we are seeing is the results of the big producers making additional profits and hurting the Democratic Party in the process. It is a win-win for them. Keep in mind who inflation at the grocery store impacts the most; hint, it ain't the rich and powerful. We are pawns in this game, any real affect that we might have is an illusion.

Agribusiness wants us to think in terms of "farming" as being the rugged individual family farmer, on his or her tractor, scratching out a living from the earth, and nothing could be further from the truth. It is a mega business with a captive customer base.

To answer your question more directly and from a personal perspective, I have cut out beef from my diet. It is not so much that I can't afford it, it is just that I am not willing to support the high prices. Do I think that it has an effect on the beef and grocery industry, certainly not. Cargill, Tyson, Mosaic and their brethren are going to make their money or we will starve in the process.

One day, these types of businesses will find a legal path to charge us for the air that we breathe, and we will accept it...