From Daily Mail:
“Bloomberg raised eyebrows with an op-ed telling Americans earning less than $300,000 to eat less meat and cut back on chemotherapy for pets to beat spiraling inflation.
The business news outlet’s tweet that promoted the story also pointed out, ‘nobody said this would be fun,’ with scholar Teresa Ghilarducci’s article offering some very dark advice.
In the widely-mocked piece, headlined ‘Inflation Stings Most If You Earn Less Than $300k,’ Ghilarducci, a NYC-based labor and retirement expert, suggests switching to vegetables as a way of avoiding inflated meat prices.
‘Though your palate may not be used to it, tasty meat substitutes include vegetables (where prices are up a little over 4%, or lentils and beans, which are up about 9%),’ she writes. ‘Plan to cut out the middle creature and consume plants directly. It’s a more efficient, healthier and cheaper way to get calories.’
And for new pet owners, Ghilarducci advises ‘to rethink those costly pet medical needs’ by cutting back on cancer treatments for much loved furry-friends.
‘It may sound harsh,’ she lectured. ‘But researchers actually don’t recommend pet chemotherapy — which can cost up to $10,000 — for ethical reasons.’
Ghilarducci also tells readers to reconsider public transportation to avoid gas prices, pointing out that public transportation prices are only up 8% compared to 38% for gas.”
This list of how you can lower your standard of living goes on here.
How about switching to policies that avoid America becoming the next Venezuela?
DCG
Same ol’ stuff, different day.
Did Ghilarducci go out and buy an island, like the rest of the low life elitists so when SHTF there’s a hole waiting for them to crawl into and hide. Wonder how many Hell Fire Missiles it would take to sink an island?
You go first, “scholar” Teresa Ghilarducci.
She looks witchy:
My dear Ms. Ghilarducci, Many Americans have been eating lentils for *many* years already, FYI, because meat has not been affordable (or trustworthy to consume) for many years already–and now fruit and veggies are being sold *individually* in grocery stores (1 lemon for 78 cents, garlic a dollar a bulb…and the prices will no doubt have risen the next time we make an expedition into town). Time to become a breatharian?
Thank you DCG for this incredible post. Guillarducci couldn’t be more absurd, illogical and grossly ignorant.
I heat a LOT of inane,useless advice like this these days. I’d REALLY like to see an investigation into how many of these people actually practice what they preach-maybe they should be required to DO what they say they think WE should do. Probably put an end to the people saying “You should just….” and when asked, “Well,do you do that?” “No-but we can afford to get fresh Beef,etc. so we don’t HAVE to do that.”
I had to laugh about the “Use Public Transportation” one-in my area we barely even HAVE such a thing. See,in this area,things are quite spread out,many people have an acre or two,or 10-40 acres they live on,so pretty much anywhere you need to go is a pretty long walk from anywhere else. The Bus can get you close enough to walk to if you’re in decent health. Where I used to live,I could take a Bus to a friend’s house,but I’d have to walk 1.4 miles to catch the bus,ride it to the closest place I could get off then walk just under a mile to get to his house. Almost 5 miles round trip. OR I could just walk the whole way,which was about 7.8 miles total distance there and back. A Taxi could be had for a $10.00 Minimum. Never mind-I’d just call-it was easier and MUCH cheaper….