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NEW - Chicken Prices Are Rising. The Fix Takes Seven Weeks
Grocery prices keep shrinking, rising, and confusing shoppers, and Dr. Sylvain Charlebois has real answers. The food economist behind the Food Professor Podcast explains why a smaller chocolate bar still costs the same, and what that says about everything else in the cart.
Anyone wondering whether beef prices ever come back down gets the real math on cattle investment from Sylvain: a two-year cycle, a cash-intensive industry, and why the herd hasn't rebuilt as fast as expected.
Chicken shortages, quota systems, and a $200 million cottage cheese bet from Ontario dairy co-op Gay Lee round out…
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