Multinationals in particular hiked prices far above rise in costs to deliver an outsize impact on cost of living crisis, report concludes

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    Inflation roughly averages 8% over the last couple years. The price of milk has gone up 300%. These are not the same.

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      To be fair, milk specifically should cost a lot more than it does because our dairy agricultural system is disgustingly abusive to cattle.

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        They’re subsidized heavily which keeps consumer costs down, but not sure why that should also lead to abusing treatment

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        is disgustingly abusive to cattle.

        Also to humans. I am pretty sure there is no minimum wage law in dairy in the US.

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      I don’t have receipts to prove it but I don’t think the price of milk has changed all that much. I just got a gallon for like $2.70. Earliest receipt I can find is from Feb of last year and I actually paid a bit more.