Germans Bought 10% Less Food in March

What does this mean, exactly?

That people are eating 10% less food?

RT:

Germany’s retail sales dropped in March, against market expectations, data published by the national statistics service Destatis revealed on Tuesday.

Price-adjusted retail turnover fell by 2.4% in March compared to February, despite a predicted 0.4% rise. On an annual basis, sales were down 8.6% in real terms following a 7.1% decline in February, according to Destatis.

Food sales plunged 10.3% in March in the largest year-on-year decline since data began in 1994. Food retail contracted 1.1% on the month, while non-food sales slipped by 2.3%, and online sales were down 8.4%. High prices remain a drag on inflation-adjusted retail data, but nominal sales have been falling as well, indicating a general slump in German household consumption.

I can understand eating 1% less food in one month to the next. I cannot understand eating 10% less food year to year.

Are they hunting boar and foraging for mushrooms?

Are people leaving the country? Or are they just losing weight?

I guess there might be other factors here that aren’t immediately obvious, like people eating less meat and more bread and rice.

Whatever the case, this is an unmitigated crisis.

And the thing that makes it so totally insane is that there is not even a proposed solution to it. The German government is just saying “you’re just going to have to deal with this – we have to have democracy in the Ukraine, even if you people all starve.”

It goes without saying that medieval peasants would have revolted over a situation that was even 5% this bad.

Again: democracy is the perfected system for suppressing the will of the people, and forcing them to tolerate things that no one in history ever would have tolerated.