Inflation or Deflation?

[Marse Supial]

Originally Posted by Itz_molecular

My error , I wasn't clear .
I generally tend to agree with your statement .
I wasn't thinking in terms of large commercial operations or export markets, but more in terms of a few acres to feed family and friends . The intrinsic value of self-sufficiency in food is priceless . To weather any economic or social turmoil with a full larder will always make the unbearable , bearable.
Being able to raise 'easy meat' , chicken , turkey , game fowl etc. is cheap and relatively easy compared to cattle and hogs .
The barter value of food can be very high , in times of social unrest .

Agreed, with the exception of hogs. Beef cattle are tremendously expensive to raise; prohibitively so in a situation where one is trying to be self-sufficient with food. Unless you have sufficient grassland to sustain them, beef cattle require food suitable for humans -- primarily corn.

Hogs, OTOH, convert waste to pork. You can feed them anything -- apple cores, potatoe peels, chicken bones, milk that has gone bad, corn cobs and other such garden waste, and they convert it to pork.