Did you ever think getting good food for the holidays could get THIS expensive?

Nikki Keisler

Article #1

North County Times

" FOOD: Traditional Thanksgiving dinner cost 13% more this year"

http://www.nctimes.com/lifestyles/food-and-cooking/food-traditional-thanksgiving-dinner-cost-percent-more-this-year/article_3593af7e-0bf7-11e1-a7ea-001cc4c002e0.html

Topic adressed: Economy

                The article that I choose for this pproject deals with the rising prices of food. On average a Thaksgiving meal for 10 will cost $5.73 more thatn last year. Also a turkey with the trimmings will cost 13%percent more than last year. Most hoilday foods are going up in price this year such as the turkey with has gone up by $4. But to give citizens a break grociers are disconting key ingredients to the traditional Thanksgiving meal. John anderson senior economist for the Farmbuero said,
"Given what is going on in the economy, higher prices on anything are not welcome,(But) it does not have the same impact as food prices in other parts of the world do. We are fortunate in that sense."

                This connect to what we are studying in class because the first English colony went through a similar problem but on a quite larger scale. Jamestown could not get substantial food at all because their link to the Indians (pocahontas) was gone and the Indians refused to trade with them after that . Like the people of Jamestown, people today have to pay a higher price toget a meal. For the people of Jamestown the price was eating other things like dogs, rates, and even other human bodies. For us the price is that we have to pay more more money. Even through we have to pay more to get food we should be thankful that we even have access to a good meal.

               This connects to my life as a citizen because we are trying to do a more traditional Thanksgiving dinner his year. So it is pretty disappointing that we have to pay eve more to get a good quality thanksgiving meal. It also connects to my life because my family always gets a organic turkey and those are more expensive than normal turkeys. So we might even have to pay more for our turkey.

            I understand that people had of raise the price on the food because it is kind of hard to not raise the prices in this bad economy and make a profit. For example, without raising the price companies would go out of business because they would be selling the food for less money than it takes to produce them. This would result in the closing of businesses because the ywould be losing money rather than making money.