Which of the following did not contribute to the food crisis?

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Bad harvests

Abundance of grain

Security of grain

Increased food prices

answer is B.

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The abundance of grain did not contribute to the food crisis. France's population increased fairly quickly between 1715 and 1789. The consequent growth in food and grain demand followed. Costs for bread increased due to the grains' inability to produce enough escalating demand. The wide variations in worker compensation and the fact that it was consistently below the rising price of food contributed to the widening wage gap between the rich and the poor. The destruction of the harvest by rain or a drought led to a subsistence crisis, which was common in France under the previous administration.

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