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One in seven Americans now use BNPL to buy groceries The number of Americans using BNPL services like Klarna, Affirm, and Afterpay for food has surged. A LendingTree survey found that 25 percent of BNPL users are using the loans for groceries—up from 14 percent last year. This isn’t budgeting. It’s survival. “A quarter of …
The Fed is about to cut rates while everything else hits all-time highs. Stocks, homes, rents, bitcoin, gold, household wealth — all at records. Unemployment sits at 4.2%. Inflation stays high. J.P. Morgan expects four rate cuts to bring the policy rate to 3.5%. https://money.usnews.com/investing/news/articles/2025-08-08/j-p-morgan-sees-fed-cutting-rates-at-each-of-its-next-four-meetings But Americans are struggling. Fast food sales dropped hard last …
Government food assistance programs have long been a lifeline for struggling families. But when taxpayer dollars start funding junk food, candy, and soda, the system loses all credibility. Benefits meant for essentials like milk, bread, and fresh vegetables are instead fueling unhealthy habits and expanding waistlines. There was a time when food stamps were strictly …
View post on imgur.com UN confirms 2,309 out of 2,604 aid trucks entering Gaza between May 19 and August 5 were intercepted before arrival. “The United Nations published data on Tuesday showing that 88.7% of aid trucks collected by the international organisation in the Gaza Strip in recent months were intercepted before reaching their destination.” …
A zoo in Denmark is asking for donations of small pets as food for its predators. The Aalborg Zoo said it is trying to mimic the natural food chain of the animals housed there “for the sake of both animal welfare and professional integrity” and offers assurances the pets will be “gently euthanized” by trained …
Retail is cooling. Not collapsing. But the heat is gone. The latest Redbook Index shows year-over-year growth of 5.2% for the week ending July 19. That’s down from 5.9% the week prior. The sample covers 9,000 stores and represents 80% of the Commerce Department’s retail data. It’s nominal. Not inflation-adjusted. So the real story is …
An investigation was underway after a worker died at a Vernon factory that makes a well-known brand of frozen burritos.
$MCD fast 'food' prices have surged pic.twitter.com/2aH6npolrB — Markets & Mayhem (@Mayhem4Markets) June 19, 2025 New American mother is at the grocery store to buy baby formula Prices are so high “I can’t tell if this is a joke or not” A single can is $52.99-$74. Having babies is not affordable Nestle lobbies against paid …
Guy at a UK gas station grocery puts at least nine wine bottles down his hoody, takes food, and even takes some flowers before strolling out without paying. Tolerating this lawlessness is why it keeps happening. pic.twitter.com/Aclh0pb4bY — Paul A. Szypula 🇺🇸 (@Bubblebathgirl) May 23, 2025
The House Agriculture Committee’s reconciliation proposal would save up to $300 billion over the next decade largely through cuts to the nation’s largest anti-hunger program, according to long-awaited Congressional Budget Office estimates viewed by POLITICO. The savings from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program would be well over the committee’s instructed target of $230 billion in spending cuts, …
House Agriculture Committee Republicans released their plan Monday night to overhaul the nation’s largest anti-hunger program to help pay for the GOP’s megabill central to enacting President Donald Trump’s legislative agenda. The panel’s proposal will hit the $230 billion instructed savings target by forcing states to pay for part of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program …
US Taxpayers subsidize Coca Cola $10 BILLION dollars every year Congress has been cleverly hiding the funding in the annual “Farm bill” “Congress subsidizes Coca Cola to the tune of about $10,000,000,000 of taxpayer money every single year — We have this scam, otherwise known as the farm bill, which really should be known as …
Most pigs in the US are confined to factory farms where they can be afflicted by a nasty respiratory virus that kills piglets. The illness is called porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome, or PRRS. A few years ago, a British company called Genus set out to design pigs immune to this germ using CRISPR gene …
End the Federal Reserve Comparing Costco Prices for the same items from 1997 vs 2025 – Mac and cheese $7.89 -> $14.84– Cheesecake $10.99 -> $19.99– Chimichangas $8.99 -> $17.99– Butter $5.49 -> $13.49– Hotdogs $5.89 -> $16.49– Ribeye Steak $13.60 -> $55.61 pic.twitter.com/AZxOBf5vhC — Wall Street Apes (@WallStreetApes) May 3, 2025 Read this very …
Trump presented the new budget in which he requests $1 trillion for defense – MorePerfectUnion Trump has asked Congress to increase the defense budget for the next fiscal year to $1.01 trillion, the White House has officially announced. The proposal includes: – $163 billion in cuts to health care, child care, education, housing, research, clean …
With tariffs sweeping the planet, global shipping being cut off and knowing that 40% of fruits and vegetables are imported into the USA its time to protect yourself. We do not know how long this will last or what else in the agribusiness sector will not be delivered for food production. Marjory and I discuss …
#BREAKING – IT’S OFFICIAL: Trump administration moves to BAN essentially ALL artificial food dyes in the USA food supply at RFK Jr.’s direction. Eliminate 6 dyes: Red 40, Yellow 5, Yellow 6, Blue 1, Blue 2, Green 3, by the end of 2026. FDA Commissioner Makary says: “This administration is NOT interested in doing the …
Democrats want you sick and unhealthy for their Big Pharma and Big Food Donors RFK Jr says Arizona Legislators passed a SNAP bill to remove soda from SNAP, Governor Katie Hobbs VETOED the SNAP bill pic.twitter.com/ypE17UINXi — Wall Street Apes (@WallStreetApes) April 17, 2025
“- Subway, they would just erase the expiration date on the bins and write a new one – Jimmy John’s also erased operation dates – Applebees, Former Applebee’s cook says ‘steaks are marked on the grill for two minutes, then thrown in the microwave to make it well done. This keeps the ticket time under …
Second Harvest Heartland defended its executive compensation and financial stewardship, but some legislators are concerned by the “out of control” salaries at nonprofits requesting public dollars. Minnesota’s hunger crisis is growing—and apparently so is the appetite for big executive pay at one of the state’s top food nonprofits. Allison O’Toole, CEO of Second Harvest Heartland, …
This is a huge problem and the Bees are the canary in the coal mine…When we lose the pollinators it is game over. Share the video and stay vigilant
The Wall Street Journal spoke to 30 packaged food company leaders. They said their greatest business “threat” was Americans wanting to be healthy. pic.twitter.com/1uwsRXLH6e — Calley Means (@calleymeans) March 28, 2025
A New Hampshire woman was arrested on Friday for allegedly contaminating items at a grocery store with her urine over the course of several years and posting videos of it online, police said. Kelli Tedford, 23, posted videos of herself to an unknown internet site showing her contaminating items at Monadnock Food Co-Op with her …
The chief executive officer of Walmart Inc. said American consumers are showing signs of stress as food prices remain stubbornly high. Some shoppers are running out of money before the end of the month and turning to smaller pack sizes for consumer goods, Chief Executive Officer Doug McMillon told about 1,000 executives at the Economic …
Steak ‘n Shake is handing Robert F. Kennedy Jr. one of his first big wins as US Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS). The fast food chain is officially switching from vegetable oil to beef tallow for cooking fries in all of their restaurants nationwide. The brand, known for their steakburgers and hand-scooped milkshakes, …
by Mike Shedlock This post was inspired by CCN and MSNBC rants over the price of eggs. CPI food price data from the BLS, chart by Mish I started a presidential year in February ending in January, but it makes little difference to these calculations. Food Price Change Under Trump, Total 4 Years Food at …
by Michael We just received some very serious news. The extremely deadly D1.1 strain of the H5N1 bird flu which has been ripping through the nation’s poultry population in recent weeks has now gotten into the cattle population in the state of Nevada. This is the very first time that cattle in the U.S. have ever …
pproval of another insect/insect-derived food as a Novel Food Questions and answers A selection of questions and answers compiled through the approval process. What was adopted by the Commission and published in January 2025? On 20 January 2025, the Commission has authorised the placing on the market of UV-treated powder of whole Tenebrio molitor larvae …
