Paula Hynes: Do you have a beef with the cost of living?
The cost of beef for the consumer has risen 22% year-on-year.
The cost of living, along with food inflation, is making the headlines — one politician even said “a litre of milk is now more expensive than a litre of petrol”.
There is some bit of truth in that statement, but in reality it is a headline grabber — if the same politician shopped own brand in a supermarket, they would get their litre of milk cheaper than petrol, and if the cost of diesel came down, the price of food may do the same, as there is a lot of transport involved in collecting milk from farms, delivering food to distribution centres and then onwards to supermarkets. And let's not forget contractor charges, which have risen dramatically due to the cost of diesel.Â
