Bnei Brak – After waging a battle against the rising costs of gas, the Israeli public has launched a new campaign recently – against the escalating prices of dairy and other foods.
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Facebook pages have popped up recently calling for a boycott of food products whose prices are on the rise, and this month the focus of the popular protest is cottage cheese.
“We considered the prices of housing, we joined and opened groups, but then we realized that the protest must start in a place that applies to the entire public,” said Yitzhak Alrov, a cantor from Bnei Brak who initiated the measure. The Facebook group he opened, titled “Consumer Boycott of Food Products,” threatens to shun each month a new Israeli-made product whose price is 50% higher than in Europe or the United States.
“Maybe this way we will manage to reduce the prices and reach some level of sanity,” Alrov said. “Israeli products are sold abroad for less than they are in Israel. In every place where price regulation is eliminated, the prices drop because of competition – but not in Israel. Here everything just rises, a real cartel.”
A recent price check at popular supermarkets showed that a container of the cheese costs NIS 7.09-7.29 ($2.07-2.13) – only slightly less than a liter of gas.
What are they doing having facebook?
The rice of dairy products is increasing throughout the world as the costs of grains for cows and the costs of fuels to run the milking machines etc also increases. If these ehrlech yidden don’t like the price, they can buy a tofu-based imitation cheese for half the price.
Curious if such a boycut would work out BEFORE YomTov Shvuos… Not sure these people would give up the dairy bakery goodies, for now after Shvuos can imagine see’em working out.
Sorry to tell you but here in the us is a cottage cheese much more than $2.07.
I use to live in montreal and the dairy products are sky rocking for example a milk is more than $5 and cheese is also around this price. I think that it would be a good idea to make this over there.
16oz Mehadrin cottage cheese $3.75 in krm supermarket. Local grocer probably 4.49. What are they complaining about.
I buy every 2 days Cottage cheese for my kids
Super 13 and the Price is $4.00 I just can’t get over it, to fill up 1 Gallon of Gas now costs $4.03, we have to open a FB page here as well, and boycot a few things and then u will see prices will drop like crazy, stupid chocolate Leben costs $1 this is CRAZY,
Get a good book on home cheesemaking, some (kosher) starter cultures and a few shekels worth of equipment. You can make your own cottage cheese easily and for a lot less.