Thursday, 30 May 2024

Supermarket prices

Aiv PUGLIELLI (North-Eastern Metropolitan) (09:43): Angus, a guy in Scotland, once survived for 382 days without food. During this time he lost 133 kilograms and lived solely on water, tea, coffee, soda water and vitamins. I would not recommend it. We cannot live without it, really. It provides us with the nutrients and energy for our bodies to continue functioning. Some might say it is essential. Like most organisms, we do not do well when we do not have enough healthy, fresh food. We get sick, we cannot function and if it goes on long enough, we do not survive. There are no two ways around it: food is essential. For most of us city or suburban folk, and even many outside of the metro regions, we just do not have the skills or time or space to produce food of our own. We rely on supermarkets to provide us with the essentials to fuel our bodies. Wouldn’t it be great if buying these essential items was easily affordable to everyone, rather than struggling to pay for something essential to life. Wouldn’t it be great if everyone could buy the food they need and like without having to stress about the cost? We should live in a state where buying a chocolate bar is not considered an extravagance, as someone recently told me that it was for them. Food is essential. We should treat it as such and make sure everyone can afford it.

The PRESIDENT: Mr Puglielli, the last thing I want to do is be the fashion police, but could you go back to your skivvy-and-jacket combo? I think we can live with that.