Food Inflation Wasn’t the Scandal. It Was the Trailer. For Everything.
Things are about to get worse. Much worse. This is no longer only about food. Think Soylent Green at the end. This is the beginning.
Since the beginning, SpokenFood has focused a great deal of our reporting on price-gouging in the food supply chain. Food prices—whether at home or at your favorite restaurant—rose so much since 2022, we targeted food inflation relative to diesel vs. grocery prices, distributor tactics, and corporate margin gluttony and found massive price-gouging, plain and simple. It was clean, visible and easily provable. We shared it with the FTC and other American government agencies. They ignored it and now we have a suspicion as to why.
If the FTC ever wanted an easy case, food seemed like the doorway. We realized the only reason the FTC, the DOJ, or the Executive Branch hasn’t done anything about the bad actors in Big Food is because the epidemic isn’t just the food industry.
It’s everywhere—and everybody knows it—because it’s hiding in plain sight. And we’re so sick of that notion.
So, we began to dig around in industries other than food. What we found was disturbing—on a level very close to realized panic—because the deeper this investigation went, the more obvious the truth became:
Food inflation wasn’t the scandal. It was the preview.
Once you step outside the grocery aisle, the entire landscape tilts the same way: rent, utilities, insurance, medical care, auto premiums—every essential cost rising in a synchronized, unnatural arc.
Different sectors.
Different inputs.
Different excuses.
Same trajectory. Up—always UP.
This isn’t a sector failure.
This is a system-wide, WORLDWIDE pricing realignment—a coordinated outcome created not by secret meetings, but by identical incentives across the corporation known as Planet Earth.
It’s political as hell and motivated by Greed and Power and a disgusting lust for both.
The next installments in this series will follow shortly.
For now, feast your eyes on the two images. One is the overall cost of your life over the past five years. (I could go back thirty years, but I didn’t want to drive you to the bar or liquor cabinet at 10:00 a.m.) The other is the very clear and obvious profit spike you see circled.
Look at those images and let it settle in. Think you were pissed off about our findings in the food industry and the FTC’s unwillingness to do anything about it?
Wait for it. You may finally become enraged enough to do something about it.
The mainstream media won’t publish this because the powers that be who control them will come down with a big bootheel on their collective necks. And they sure as hell don’t want that.
More to come.
Sources/Images: FRED, BLS, EIA, ChatGPT for Images and Graphs