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Farmers warn of higher food costs due to Iran war (www.bbc.com)

submitted 23 hours ago by veggibles@lemmy.wtf to c/world@quokk.au

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[–] HootinNHollerin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 22 hours ago

[–] tomiant@piefed.social 14 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Who could have foreseen such a chain of events?

[–] StillAlive@piefed.world 4 points 22 hours ago

Literally unexpected. As shown in this video from 2012: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sN1YBRal2FY

[–] dumbass@piefed.social 9 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (1 children)

| | warns of higher | | prices due to Iran war.

There ya go news people saved ya some time.

[–] tomiant@piefed.social 3 points 21 hours ago

Prices go up? I knew it!

[–] KindnessIsPunk@lemmy.ca 4 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

We really need to figure out fertilizers that don't depend on petroleum at scale

[–] teyrnon@sh.itjust.works 3 points 20 hours ago

Using sewage combined with industrial waste streams isn't the best alternative either. Which is something they do. The pfas contamination gets all the attention on that, but there can be a lot of things n there besides just pfas.

One wouldn't think we would do something so incredibly dumb, and or malicious as it amounts to purposefully poisoning the food supply, but we do, and no one cares.

[–] WalleyeWarrior@midwest.social 2 points 19 hours ago

What we were doing before that was mining guano islands until they collapsed