| trader4@optonline.net: Mar 18 06:24AM -0700 On Tuesday, March 17, 2015 at 1:38:50 PM UTC-4, Michael Black wrote: > I saw an article some time back about how the price of lobster at the dock > was way down (I can't remember the reason), making it quite hard to be the > ones catching them. Making it quite hard to earn a decent profit catching lobsters doesn't equate with them being cheap and the food poor people are eating. At $2.50 a pound wholesale, the fishermen may be making little or no profit, but that still puts them at $5+ retail. And considering what meat there is on them versus waste, you can more that double that price. How does that compare to other available food sources? It sure isn't what poor people are eating. And I'd note that those periods of low prices are the exception, you stated that lobster has always been poor people's food by the sea. I'm 2 miles from the sea and you're wrong. I've never been poor and still lobster is something we enjoy only occasionally. > Yet the prices didn't go down at the consumer end. So then how are poor people eating lobsters at the seashore? Prices don't just magically behave differently here. > and was always bringing them home. > I'd discount the second one, but not the first. > Michael There is no first. And the second, well if you're stuffing lobsters into your purse, your shorts, or getting some special employee deal, then it's an exceptional case, not what most poor people are doing. Good grief. |
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