Butter, milk, beef, chocolate and coffee accounted for about 40 per cent of the increase in food prices over the past year, despite making up barely a tenth of the typical household food basket, according to the Energy and Climate Intelligence Unit (ECIU) research group.

Switching to a plant-based pattern solves the top 3.

So who are pushing the false narrative that it’s wages and taxes that are driving food-price inflation? Oh, right: “industry groups.”

That probably also means they’re using recent events as an excuse to fatten their profit margins.