Fresh produce has reached eye-watering prices in recent months and even aquarium creatures are being impacted by the cost-of-living rises. 9News
Pig the dugong lives at SEA LIFE aquarium in Darling Harbour and his diet consists of lettuce, one of the vegetables with a skyrocketing price tag.
Recent wet weather wiping out crops, global supply chain issues, and the prices of fuel and fertiliser have led to a vegetable crisis in Australia.Pig surfaces for air before diving down to eat the lettuce.For Pig the dugong, this means his diet of 30 kilograms of lettuce a day is costing the aquarium a bucket load.At the start of the year, the aquarium was spending $7200 a month on lettuce but in June they spent $18,000.
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