How to Stop Big Food’s Greed
First and foremost, let’s strip away the excuses, because none of them hold water.
This isn’t primarily diesel/gas. It’s deeper.
It isn’t grocery wages — roughly 2%.
It isn’t restaurant labor — irrelevant to food-at-home.
It isn’t general – or worse, “seasonal inflation” — 3% at best.
It’s not tariffs, packaging, or transportation. It’s not any other manufactured excuse either the media or anyone in the industry is giving the American people.
It’s all crap. Fluff. Dross.
Every single ‘cost driver’ Big Food throws out falls apart when you compare it to the actual data. Even the media (Big Food’s very willing Bag Man) continues to trot out the most flaccid excuses. No matter – their excuses are too small, too temporary, or too easily disproven. Our math is solid.
When you remove all the convenient alibis, only one explanation survives and our math supports it: did corporations raise prices – and keep them rising – because they could — and once executives tasted those yummy margins, they refused to give them back?
Sounds pretty plausible, especially when you apply our math.
How YOU Can Change the Narrative
🔥 THE REGULATORY TRIANGULATION TACTIC
A three-point pressure strategy:
FTC → State Attorneys General → U.S. Congressional Delegations
Why it works:
These three entities all have overlapping jurisdiction, and they HATE being shown up by each other. If consumers hit all three with the same packet of evidence, you create:
- jurisdictional embarrassment
- political incentive
- inter-agency pressure
- media-covered friction
And here’s the critical angle:
Each office is obligated to log and classify every complaint that hits its pipeline.
When enough people submit the same structured complaint, using the same evidence, regulators are forced to categorize it not as isolated noise but as a systemic pattern.
That’s what triggers:
- internal memos
- economic inquiries
- congressional staff briefings
- data requests to food suppliers
- heat on Big Food’s trade groups
You’re not asking people to call their local Target manager.
You’re sending them straight into the regulatory bloodstream.
📬 WHO TO CONTACT (the part that was missing)
FTC — Consumer Protection Bureau
Complaint Form (Food Price, Market Manipulation, Pricing Practices):
https://reportfraud.ftc.gov
Phone: 1-877-FTC-HELP (1-877-382-4357)
Your State Attorney General
Find your AG (official .gov directory):
https://www.naag.org/find-my-ag/
Your U.S. House Representative
Find your member of Congress:
https://www.house.gov/representatives/find-your-representative
These are the three points of pressure — all of them obligated to receive, log, categorize, and react when enough people push the same data.
🔥 A FINAL CALL-TO-ACTION
If you want the New Normal to end, stop shouting into the void and start shoving this data into the agencies that are supposed to protect you. Send this story — and the Mona Lisa Graph — to three places: the FTC’s Consumer Protection Bureau, your State Attorney General, and your U.S. Representative’s office. Tell them exactly what you now know: diesel prices collapsed, Big Food’s costs didn’t rise, and the CPI never came back down. Ask them one question: “Why haven’t you opened an investigation?” One person asking is a complaint. Ten thousand people asking is a case file.
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💥 Why This Works
Because:
✓ FTC logs every food-pricing complaint
and cross-matches them to “market concentration” investigations.
✓ State AGs love being first
to open multi-state price-fixing actions — especially against giant corporations.
✓ U.S. Representatives respond instantly
when they see thousands of emails containing the same chart and the same accusation that they’re ignoring price gouging in their districts.
✓ Big Food lobbyists freak out
the moment congressional offices start calling for “briefings” on specific CPI discrepancies (or maybe Big Food starts throwing even bigger envelopes at Congress? Just a question).
This is cause → effect → pressure → action.
It is credible, scalable, and immediate.
Remember: One person asking is a complaint. Ten thousand people asking is a case file.
A million people? Now, that’s a lawsuit even Big Food can’t dodge.
Sources & Images: FRED, Environmental Information Administration, Bureau of Labor Statistics