But real food costs the most now. That is, single ingredient foods such as butter (just butter, not "butter" with canola or some other oil) and meat that isn't plumped up with injected brine from an animal fed genetically modified corn. Cheese that is just cheese – without sawdust to add bulk (and yes, they do that).

The cost of eating such food – vs. not-food (and Frankenfood) is becoming exorbitant.

In my area – SW Virginia – an 8 ounce pack of Kerry Gold Butter is hard to find for much less than $6. The seed oil-laden stuff sells for about half that. A pint of cream without carrageenan from cows not injected with bovine growth hormone costs close to $7 now. A grass fed (not "finished") steak that you could buy for $8 just a couple of years ago now costs $12. Eggs that weren't laid by battery hens that never saw the light of day or ate a single blade of grass also cost about $6 for a dozen – about twice what they cost not that long ago You can still buy "eggs" – if you want to call the sad, runny, barely-yellow-yolked things that are laid by battery hens – for about half that. But do you want to eat them?