HYATTSVILLE, Md. — Higher than ever inflation rates have reached a point where they are now markedly impacting food baby rates, experts confirmed.
“We’re used to tracking things like death and birth rates, but with the economy where it is right now, we’re in completely new territory,” explained Josh Stone from the National Center for Health Statistics. “As inflation has just continued to go up and food prices have risen, we’ve been seeing more and more instances of couples and single people alike forgoing a life of food baby parenthood. They’re really missing out on the joys of raising a food baby. It’s so concerning, we’ve had to create a whole new branch just to track food baby rates. That branch makes up 35% of our annual budget.”
Food baby-free couples everywhere reacted to this news.
“I’m not at all surprised to hear that they’ve finally confirmed what we’ve been seeing with our own eyes for the past 10 years,” shared Jocelyn Miller. “None of our friends have food babies anymore. It’s become so normalized. My husband and I used to be able to enjoy going to Chipotle and spending $10 for a burrito that would give us one healthy food baby. We could even afford twins on date night. It’s crazy that we’re supposed to just be okay with this. It’s not the lifestyle we were raised to expect.”
Sarah Thomas, an acclaimed Economic Sociologist, shared an expert take on what this trend means for the population.
“This is another concerning trend we’ve been tracking amidst worsening inflation and job loss,” said Thomas. “I’m surprised but glad to see government agencies are finally recognizing it for the issue that it is. We’ve had our eyes on food baby trends for a while. Things in the ‘90s were so good, even kids were having food babies. Social trends change all the time based on the economy, so it made sense when the trend shifted a little so that only parents were having food babies. But now? Only the ultra-rich have the ability. It’s not right. The average American should be able to eat an entire pizza, become food baby pregnant that night, and then give birth to a healthy pizza baby first thing in the morning.”
At press time, government officials announced they are setting up a task force to get to the bottom of this crisis, and they assured the public it will place blame on citizens.
