Green vegetables are more expensive than meat? This topic has been repeatedly mentioned in recent years.
On the unit price, it is only an individual phenomenon that vegetables are more expensive than meat. Generally speaking, vegetables are cheaper than meat. Of course, we are still a well-fed society at present. From the two indicators of "eating tolerance" and "providing energy", in fact, green vegetables are already more expensive than meat.
The whole world is hot and cold, and we are not the only ones with high vegetable prices. Recently, the high price of Chinese cabbage, the main raw material of kimchi, has affected the stability of Korean society to a certain extent: some people were arrested for stealing 10 Chinese cabbage from farmers' vegetable fields; Some people queue up at the entrance of the supermarket in the early hours of the morning, just to buy special Chinese cabbage; And South Korean President Lee Myung-bak, because of the price increase of Chinese cabbage, let the kitchen use Chinese cabbage instead of Chinese cabbage as kimchi raw material.
According to the analysis, the reasons for the local rapid increase in vegetable prices these days are related to the weather, seasons, holiday consumption and other factors. However, from the experience of developed countries, it is a big trend that vegetables are more expensive than meat, and everyone needs to begin to accept this reality slowly. More than a decade ago, there was a best-selling book about studying abroad, which said that the protagonist was studying in the United States. Because he was poor, he ate chicken at every meal and could only eat some vegetables at the gathering of fellow villagers. This detail impressed me deeply, because I was also in college and poor at that time. The difference was that I ate vegetables every meal and could only eat some meat at the gathering of fellow villagers.
The American economy is developed, and the production of meat food is highly standardized and large in scale, so the cost is relatively low, while the standardization of vegetable production is relatively low, and it is inconvenient to store and transport, so the cost is high and the price is relatively high. Now it seems that such a situation has begun to appear in China, and the society is indeed making progress! You know, only a decade ago, researchers in China were still working hard to develop various lean meat products to meet the growing needs of the masses for high-quality meat.
Although the price changes of vegetables and meat are due to industrial characteristics, the factors of currency flooding cannot be avoided. Otherwise, it is difficult to explain why it is not only green vegetables but also many commodities that keep rising in price. Whether it is the demand for food and clothing that wants to eat more meat, or the demand for improvement that wants to eat more vegetables and fruits after eating enough meat, it is blocked by the weak income growth and the rapid price increase. And the soaring price of green vegetables, farmers may not get much benefit, which is equally sighing.