Retailers Brace for a Hard Candy Christmas
After a disappointing Black Friday, clouds are gathering over the 2022 holiday shopping season.
This Thanksgiving, media outlets were full of ideas about how to stretch the family budget further this year. With everything families normally buy to celebrate the holiday season — including dinner traditions — adding up to so much more this year, any ideas might seem welcome.
It’s hard to imagine Americans trading butter for baby food on their traditional hot rolls, no matter that the former has risen in price faster than the latter, but some of the tips weren’t bad.
After all, a 26-story high-rise pork processing center opened in China yesterday, the first of its kind. Though animal agriculture experts are already warning about the increased risk of disease, more such “pig palaces” are likely to follow. Just imagine — 26 slaughterhouses, all stacked on top of each other.
Considering the non-sustainability of industrial animal agriculture on that scale, and on a planet playing host to nearly 8 billion people, cutting down on animal products as a cost-saving measure is an excellent idea — for financial, environmental, and health reasons.