Bloomberg News: Let Your Pets Die to Fight Inflation
Mar 20, 2022 23:27:28 GMT -5
Post by PurplePuppy on Mar 20, 2022 23:27:28 GMT -5
I'd rather the evil politicians who are causing this chaos die - and the sooner the better! 😡😡😡
Bloomberg News: Let Your Pets Die to Fight Inflation
JOEL B. POLLAK20 Mar 2022
2:33
Bloomberg News published an article last week offering tips for working Americans who are struggling with inflation — and among them is the suggestion that people allow their pets to die rather than paying for expensive medical treatments.
Among other advice, including eating lentils and beans instead of meat, Bloomberg News suggests letting sick pets pass on: “If you’re one of the many Americans who became a new pet owner during the pandemic, you might want to rethink those costly pet medical needs. It may sound harsh, but researchers actually don’t recommend pet chemotherapy — which can cost up to $10,000 — for ethical reasons.”
Other tips include:
To deal with gas prices, it’s worth reconsidering public transportation if it’s an option where you live. Fares are up about 8% compared with 38% for gasoline. Now may even be the time to sell your car. It certainly isn’t the time to buy a new or used one. Prices have stabilized a bit, but used-car prices are still up more than 40% from a year ago, and new ones are up 12%.
When it comes to food, don’t be afraid to explore. Prices for animal-based food products will certainly increase. Ukraine and Russiasupply a significant amount of corn and barley to the world market, mainly to feed livestock for human food. Meat prices have increased about 14% from February 2021 and will go up even more. Though your palate may not be used to it, tasty meat substitutes include vegetables (where prices are up a little over 4%, or lentils and beans, which are up about 9%). Plan to cut out the middle creature and consume plants directly. It’s a more efficient, healthier and cheaper way to get calories.
Official figures showed earlier this month that prices jumped 7.9% in February, the highest rate of increase in four decades.
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There are some great sarcastic comments on this article:
I like some of Bloomberg's suggestions. Anybody who voted for Xiden should be forced to take the bus, sell their cars, only eat lentils, and stop eating altogether if they have pets so they can buy pet food.
There are 81 million in that situation. If you don't believe it you're a traitor.
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Such a whiner. You should just replace your truck with an electric one for a hundred grand or so, and your gasoline expenses will go down 100 bucks a month. Do it for the Ukranians. And besides, you don't deserve the obscene profits you're making, and you're stealing a job from a deserving immigrant.
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Once the ChiComs and Russians control most of the lithium for electric car batteries and start holding back the supply of lithium in order to control Western governments.
Then what will all the mask wearing, electric car driving, Liberal nut-jobs do when they can't buy their precious electric "clown" cars?
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well, that and the fact that the electric grid would collapse if 1/10th of the population converted to electric vehicles, and then, of course, the damage to the environment when the batteries are disposed of, and when the lithium is mined, and the fact that lithium is not an unlimited material, and the fact that building sufficient charging stations would cost another trillion dollars or so just in the US, and and and and and and and.
but don't mind me, i'm just one of those stupid realists who thinks about numbers and stuff that have no place in la-la land
Bloomberg News: Let Your Pets Die to Fight Inflation
JOEL B. POLLAK20 Mar 2022
2:33
Bloomberg News published an article last week offering tips for working Americans who are struggling with inflation — and among them is the suggestion that people allow their pets to die rather than paying for expensive medical treatments.
Among other advice, including eating lentils and beans instead of meat, Bloomberg News suggests letting sick pets pass on: “If you’re one of the many Americans who became a new pet owner during the pandemic, you might want to rethink those costly pet medical needs. It may sound harsh, but researchers actually don’t recommend pet chemotherapy — which can cost up to $10,000 — for ethical reasons.”
Other tips include:
To deal with gas prices, it’s worth reconsidering public transportation if it’s an option where you live. Fares are up about 8% compared with 38% for gasoline. Now may even be the time to sell your car. It certainly isn’t the time to buy a new or used one. Prices have stabilized a bit, but used-car prices are still up more than 40% from a year ago, and new ones are up 12%.
When it comes to food, don’t be afraid to explore. Prices for animal-based food products will certainly increase. Ukraine and Russiasupply a significant amount of corn and barley to the world market, mainly to feed livestock for human food. Meat prices have increased about 14% from February 2021 and will go up even more. Though your palate may not be used to it, tasty meat substitutes include vegetables (where prices are up a little over 4%, or lentils and beans, which are up about 9%). Plan to cut out the middle creature and consume plants directly. It’s a more efficient, healthier and cheaper way to get calories.
Official figures showed earlier this month that prices jumped 7.9% in February, the highest rate of increase in four decades.
link
There are some great sarcastic comments on this article:
I like some of Bloomberg's suggestions. Anybody who voted for Xiden should be forced to take the bus, sell their cars, only eat lentils, and stop eating altogether if they have pets so they can buy pet food.
There are 81 million in that situation. If you don't believe it you're a traitor.
-----
Such a whiner. You should just replace your truck with an electric one for a hundred grand or so, and your gasoline expenses will go down 100 bucks a month. Do it for the Ukranians. And besides, you don't deserve the obscene profits you're making, and you're stealing a job from a deserving immigrant.
-----
Once the ChiComs and Russians control most of the lithium for electric car batteries and start holding back the supply of lithium in order to control Western governments.
Then what will all the mask wearing, electric car driving, Liberal nut-jobs do when they can't buy their precious electric "clown" cars?
-----
well, that and the fact that the electric grid would collapse if 1/10th of the population converted to electric vehicles, and then, of course, the damage to the environment when the batteries are disposed of, and when the lithium is mined, and the fact that lithium is not an unlimited material, and the fact that building sufficient charging stations would cost another trillion dollars or so just in the US, and and and and and and and.
but don't mind me, i'm just one of those stupid realists who thinks about numbers and stuff that have no place in la-la land