Digging deeper to eat – answers

true/false/no evidence

1. US consumers are seeing rapid price increases. T: ‘sticker shock‘
2. The first man interviewed has had a recent pay increase. F: his pay ‘hasn’t gone up’ (but prices have)
3. Food prices are the only prices which are increasing. F: energy prices have also increased
4. The woman interviewed shops around for her milk. T: ‘I walk out of my way to get milk’
5. People are very unhappy about the increase in the price of milk. NE: we don’t know how other people feel about the increase in the milk price
6. Dairy foods have had the biggest price increase. F: they have the second biggest increase – meat, poultry, fish and eggs have gone up the most
7. Most wholesalers are putting their prices up. NE: we know that some are, but don’t know about the majority
8. The shopkeeper will not pay a 5% increase on products immediately. T: ‘we’re not giving it to them so fast’
9. The cost for all foods is going up by 7%. F: this is the increase for meat and poultry
10. Most people spend 9.9% of their disposable income on food. F: the average US consumer, not all
11. This may rise to 12% or 13% in the near future. T: in the next 3 or 4 years
12. These increases are all being caused by bad weather across the world. F: this isn’t the only reason another reason is the emerging economies (such as China and India).