High Food Prices and Fake News

Leftist media are desperate to blame Trump, as usual. But look at what they said just a couple of years ago.

Terry O’Brien | September 14, 2026

It’s so easy to be a fake news journalist, right?  You don’t need to investigate stories very much; all you need to do is figure out how to blame the current problem on Trump, and your story will tickle the ears of millions of lemmings.  That includes the problem of current food prices.

Early Post-COVID Food Supply Chain and Farming Warnings

After going shopping recently, I decided to try my hand at investigative journalism.  Here is what I found out: During the immediate post-pandemic recovery period, economists, agricultural experts, and international institutions repeatedly warned that disruptions to farming infrastructure and supply chains would create long-term upward pressure on food prices.  Key reports and articles detailed how rising input costs — particularly for energy and fertilizer — and structural vulnerabilities would take years to fully manifest at the retail level:

World Bank Analysis (November 2021): The World Bank Commodity Markets Review warned that skyrocketing natural gas and energy costs were driving fertilizer prices to their highest levels since 2008.  The report explicitly noted that these surging input costs would exert lagging inflationary pressures on global food supplies and jeopardize future crop yields.

IFPRI & ScienceDirect Market Study (2021–2022): Research published on ScienceDirect documented the compounding shocks of the uneven post-COVID economic recovery and agricultural bottlenecks.  It detailed how severe spikes in fertilizer prices raised long-term fears of reduced crop applications, lower aggregate yields, and sticky structural food........

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