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Baked beans, cheap bread, tinned hotdogs, all cooked and ready to eat and far cheaper than pet food.
Agree with u/Good-Reflection-2744 about the unions.
I haven’t heard anyone’s particular circumstances in the news but has led to this particular situation.
Perhaps the most likely scenario is that someone’s been caught out short on money near the end of the month and they’ve not had enough food in their cupboards and it or enough to heat their food. So they’ve had to resort to like pet food but they had in the house short-term and using candles to warm it up. I don’t know this might be two separate things.
But it’s difficult to understand the context here because we don’t have any person that says that that’s happened to them putting their side across.
The one thing for certain though is the cost of living is brutal and I wouldn’t be surprised if people end up dying over this ; and most likely are people dying already. It’s almost certain that suicide rates are gone up even though probably not been reported in the media because it’s not newsworthy
Loads of Aldi tinned food is cheaper than their pet food.
Unless your eating mixer even then I’d guess the cheap biscuits are less
I keep seeing this story spread on the internet and it just reeks of bullshit. Probably misquoted or just plain made up to cause some public shock.
If there is some element of truth to the story, I’m sorry for those involved but this isn’t the post-apocalypse. Yet. Canned foods are very inexpensive, i’d argue much cheaper than pet food.
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Dog food is expensive and has risen in price considerably. Plenty of cheaper tinned human food though.
But the big question is, and one that’s not being asked, is why dog food and not cat food?
No they’re not.
And if they are, it’s in the same vein as poor old Pauline (94) saying she has to use battery powered lights as she can’t afford to use her normal person lights.
More doomsday nonsense…..
I’m sure there are people out there finding it hard but if they are doing this it’s by choice or for the attention
They aren’t though are they. Even if they are it’s their own fault for being stupid, plenty of other ways to eat food for cheaper without this shit
How much of this stuff is just the media cresting scare stories?
I’d have to physically see someone walk around Aldi, passed all the cheaper regular food to pick up a weeks supply of dog food, shot it in their packed lunch for work and eat it everyday before believing they were actually eating it honestly.
This is either bullshit or some very stupid people. Candles are a very expensive way of getting heat and light, and there’s cheaper tinned human food than dog food.
Would love to know where these people get their dog food!
I don’t know if they have dogs, unless people are eating dry dog biscuits it is not cheaper.
Even the dry dog biscuits probably work out more expensive than rice/pasta etc
Like everyone else in this thread I don’t believe this. Burden of proof is on the journalist here for making this kind of claim. Dog food just isn’t a cost efficient way to feed yourself.
Naw they’re no, I once made a cup of tea with candles, it took hours.
I’m poor but even I would not stoop that low to eat dog food,there is help out there
This is such bollocks. Candles and dog food is more expensive than Aldi tins if food and using the hob.
I mean how cheap are the cheapest candles? You can heat a tin of beans on the hob in about a minute.
Stop with this dog food crap – it makes it easier for ppl with vested interests to deny/mock the cost of living crisis.
Bruh, pet food is WAY more expensive than pet food
Why does nobody challenge this rubbish? Nobody is eating pet food unless they are downright weird. No way is it cheaper. I know that many people are struggling financially, but these stories do not garner any sympathy from me, but rather, I just think ” What a load of old tosh”. What next, chewing on gravel to ease their hunger pangs? Exaggeration does nothing but make for a ridiculous story, and why do dopey ” journalists” just regurgitate any old tale they are told?
People eat normal food in countries with extreme inflation rates like Turkey, Venezuela, and Argentina. If they get by without eating dog food you can too.
So many comments here assume people are trundling off down the supermarket and selecting a tin of dog food over something else.
But there are people with no money to spend. In those scenarios you eat what you can get.
I dont have any more information than anyone else here. I do not know how true the statement is. But there’s a lot here unaware of how desperate some peoples situation can be.
Just goes to show how far from the truth the “news” has shifted
Technically the Independent is now just an online fanzine, so I’ll give them a pass
A candle costs 50p and gives a total of 0.375 kWh.
A kWh from a microwave costs 50p.
Heating using a candle costs 2500 times that of a microwave.
This has “child being treated on a hospital floor” all over it.
I like to huff glue when eating cat food, it makes me nice and sleepy.
If it’s the last thing in the cupboard and you have no money then maybe you would eat the pet food. No one with money is going to goto the supermarket and buy pet food to eat as their are better options.
I’m glad to see that there’s plenty of people here, almost everyone, that uses their own brain to detect this kind of bullshit.
Yes its hard*er* and some food items went way up in price, but there’s still plenty of affordable stuff.
I mean FFS just eat porridge, potatoes, bread, crisps, chips, waffles, frozen veg and beans if you have to. Dog food? Fuck off. People eat dog food and sit in candle light because they’re morons.
I really don’t get all these people.using candles (unless they have been cut off completly I guess). Candles are super expensive per KW/h
Where are people finding all these cheap candles that are cheaper than a light bulb or their built in appliances.
No one is heating a meal with a fucking candle I’m sorry
When I was a kid ( in the 1960’s), central heating was not the norm ( we had a coal fire only). My mother would light a candle ( held in a proper candlestick holder), to “take the chill” from an unheated room . We were ( and I still am! ) dirt poor, but we wouldn’t have considered eating pet food or cooking with a candle- it doesn’t make sense…
Has anyone told them canned food is cheaper and already cooked?
I’m sure there are people doing this, but they’re doing it because they’re morons, not because they have to.
Who owns candles? Let alone tries to cook food with them.
I fail to see how heating food with candle would save any money, if not making it more expensive.
Pet food is more expensive than tinned soup, and to heat it with candles you’d need more than Yankee manufacture in a year
There isn’t a single parallel universe where I wouldn’t steal food instead of eating dog food, or be too proud to just knock on my neighbours door and ask if they can spare a loaf of bread. Poverty can make people do stupid things, but it doesn’t mean they have to.
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Baked beans, cheap bread, tinned hotdogs, all cooked and ready to eat and far cheaper than pet food.
Agree with u/Good-Reflection-2744 about the unions.
I haven’t heard anyone’s particular circumstances in the news but has led to this particular situation.
Perhaps the most likely scenario is that someone’s been caught out short on money near the end of the month and they’ve not had enough food in their cupboards and it or enough to heat their food. So they’ve had to resort to like pet food but they had in the house short-term and using candles to warm it up. I don’t know this might be two separate things.
But it’s difficult to understand the context here because we don’t have any person that says that that’s happened to them putting their side across.
The one thing for certain though is the cost of living is brutal and I wouldn’t be surprised if people end up dying over this ; and most likely are people dying already. It’s almost certain that suicide rates are gone up even though probably not been reported in the media because it’s not newsworthy
Loads of Aldi tinned food is cheaper than their pet food.
Unless your eating mixer even then I’d guess the cheap biscuits are less
I keep seeing this story spread on the internet and it just reeks of bullshit. Probably misquoted or just plain made up to cause some public shock.
If there is some element of truth to the story, I’m sorry for those involved but this isn’t the post-apocalypse. Yet. Canned foods are very inexpensive, i’d argue much cheaper than pet food.
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Dog food is expensive and has risen in price considerably. Plenty of cheaper tinned human food though.
But the big question is, and one that’s not being asked, is why dog food and not cat food?
No they’re not.
And if they are, it’s in the same vein as poor old Pauline (94) saying she has to use battery powered lights as she can’t afford to use her normal person lights.
More doomsday nonsense…..
I’m sure there are people out there finding it hard but if they are doing this it’s by choice or for the attention
They aren’t though are they. Even if they are it’s their own fault for being stupid, plenty of other ways to eat food for cheaper without this shit
How much of this stuff is just the media cresting scare stories?
I’d have to physically see someone walk around Aldi, passed all the cheaper regular food to pick up a weeks supply of dog food, shot it in their packed lunch for work and eat it everyday before believing they were actually eating it honestly.
This is either bullshit or some very stupid people. Candles are a very expensive way of getting heat and light, and there’s cheaper tinned human food than dog food.
Would love to know where these people get their dog food!
I don’t know if they have dogs, unless people are eating dry dog biscuits it is not cheaper.
Even the dry dog biscuits probably work out more expensive than rice/pasta etc
Like everyone else in this thread I don’t believe this. Burden of proof is on the journalist here for making this kind of claim. Dog food just isn’t a cost efficient way to feed yourself.
Naw they’re no, I once made a cup of tea with candles, it took hours.
I’m poor but even I would not stoop that low to eat dog food,there is help out there
This is such bollocks. Candles and dog food is more expensive than Aldi tins if food and using the hob.
I mean how cheap are the cheapest candles? You can heat a tin of beans on the hob in about a minute.
Stop with this dog food crap – it makes it easier for ppl with vested interests to deny/mock the cost of living crisis.
Bruh, pet food is WAY more expensive than pet food
Why does nobody challenge this rubbish? Nobody is eating pet food unless they are downright weird. No way is it cheaper. I know that many people are struggling financially, but these stories do not garner any sympathy from me, but rather, I just think ” What a load of old tosh”. What next, chewing on gravel to ease their hunger pangs? Exaggeration does nothing but make for a ridiculous story, and why do dopey ” journalists” just regurgitate any old tale they are told?
People eat normal food in countries with extreme inflation rates like Turkey, Venezuela, and Argentina. If they get by without eating dog food you can too.
So many comments here assume people are trundling off down the supermarket and selecting a tin of dog food over something else.
But there are people with no money to spend. In those scenarios you eat what you can get.
I dont have any more information than anyone else here. I do not know how true the statement is. But there’s a lot here unaware of how desperate some peoples situation can be.
Just goes to show how far from the truth the “news” has shifted
Technically the Independent is now just an online fanzine, so I’ll give them a pass
A candle costs 50p and gives a total of 0.375 kWh.
A kWh from a microwave costs 50p.
Heating using a candle costs 2500 times that of a microwave.
This has “child being treated on a hospital floor” all over it.
I like to huff glue when eating cat food, it makes me nice and sleepy.
If it’s the last thing in the cupboard and you have no money then maybe you would eat the pet food. No one with money is going to goto the supermarket and buy pet food to eat as their are better options.
I’m glad to see that there’s plenty of people here, almost everyone, that uses their own brain to detect this kind of bullshit.
Yes its hard*er* and some food items went way up in price, but there’s still plenty of affordable stuff.
I mean FFS just eat porridge, potatoes, bread, crisps, chips, waffles, frozen veg and beans if you have to. Dog food? Fuck off. People eat dog food and sit in candle light because they’re morons.
I really don’t get all these people.using candles (unless they have been cut off completly I guess). Candles are super expensive per KW/h
Where are people finding all these cheap candles that are cheaper than a light bulb or their built in appliances.
No one is heating a meal with a fucking candle I’m sorry
When I was a kid ( in the 1960’s), central heating was not the norm ( we had a coal fire only). My mother would light a candle ( held in a proper candlestick holder), to “take the chill” from an unheated room . We were ( and I still am! ) dirt poor, but we wouldn’t have considered eating pet food or cooking with a candle- it doesn’t make sense…
Has anyone told them canned food is cheaper and already cooked?
I’m sure there are people doing this, but they’re doing it because they’re morons, not because they have to.
Who owns candles? Let alone tries to cook food with them.
I fail to see how heating food with candle would save any money, if not making it more expensive.
Pet food is more expensive than tinned soup, and to heat it with candles you’d need more than Yankee manufacture in a year
There isn’t a single parallel universe where I wouldn’t steal food instead of eating dog food, or be too proud to just knock on my neighbours door and ask if they can spare a loaf of bread. Poverty can make people do stupid things, but it doesn’t mean they have to.
Also why wouldn’t they go to a food bank?!