If you think food costs more now, just wait: It's only going to get worse. Although food inflation is the highest its been since 1990 and menu prices are rising, up 4.3 percent so far this year, economists predict that food prices will rise by at least 7 percent in 2009 because of higher feed costs for chickens, hogs and cattle. [Reuters]
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