Bidenflation Has Driven Up Food Prices, But His Climate Agenda is About to Make Them Go Ballistic

Food prices have been one of the most subtly painful elements of the Biden presidency but if his radical climate agenda has anything to say about it, we’re just getting started!

Inflation has remained red-hot despite the Biden regime’s lies and food has been one of the leading categories. Unfortunately, farmers don’t have good news for us. They are warning things are going to get MUCH worse if old Joe and his radical climate policies continue.

Analysts with the U.S. farming industry have sounded the alarm about how Biden’s efforts to force the industry into meeting some arbitrary climate metrics could wreak havoc on food prices for years to come.

The Buckeye Institute produced a report detailing exactly how severe the coming food price crisis could get if farmers bend the knee to this oppressive regime.

Titled “Net-Zero Climate-Control Policies Will Fail the Farm,” the report projects that farmers will see their own costs rise by AT LEAST 34 percent.

For the average American family of four this would conservatively increase their household grocery bill by more than $1,300 per year – and that’s without factoring in other driving forces behind inflation.

“Complying with net-zero emissions policies and corporate ESG reporting requirements will increase prices of farm inputs, the costs of which will ultimately be passed onto consumers at grocery stores and restaurants,” the report states.

“This is where the left is going, trying to get to net zero,” Rea Hederman, executive director of the Buckeye Institute’s economic research center said.

While some may be under the impression that prices will eventually return to normal, Hederman points out that these increases are here to stay.

“It’s a sustained increase, not a temporary fluctuation in food prices, because you’re building higher baseline operating costs that are going to be permanent for farmers going forward,” he said.

To achieve Biden’s ridiculous net zero mandates, farms would have to completely redo the way they work which is painful for an industry that already operates on a particularly slim margin.

America’s food producers will have to make accommodations for net zero nonsense while also dealing with things like higher fuel and fertilizer costs.

“It’s important for people to understand that when you’re raising costs to farmers, that is being passed on to consumers of food, and some types of food are going to be impacted more,” Mr. Hederman further said.

“So for example, beef is going to go up more than oranges because if you’re raising the cost of corn, that’s an input to beef, so beef suffers a double whammy.”

The average price of ground beef was $3.97 per pound in January 2021 and it has risen to $5.03 per pound as of January 2024. This trend would likely continue WITHOUT Biden’s delusional climate agenda so it’s painful to imagine how high this price could end up if Joe keeps pushing.

On top of driving prices higher, this could also force smaller mom-and-pop farms out of business altogether, signaling the Biden regime’s latest attack on small businesses in America.

As long as this president and his goons stay in office, Americans are under attack from every direction!