Posted on 10/05/2015 7:33:55 AM PDT by C19fan
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Yeah...the meat market near me accepts EBT cards and food stamps. I’m sure they’re not switching to pork.
This will change again when Beef prices come back down... which will be a while.
14 after years of drought whittled the U.S. cattle herd down to a six-decade low.
Function of cost, not preference. Once Cattle numbers get back up to where they need to be prices will come down and consumption will go up.
$3 or $4 a lb for low end ground beef is all you need to know about why folks are choosing something else right now.
I've been working all my life so I've learned to acquire the taste for grilled chicken thighs and bone-in pork chops.
For about $20, I can still fill my refrigerator with those chicken thighs and drumsticks.
Beef Isn't For Dinner Anymore as [working] Americans Devour Cheaper Pork....leaving beef for the EBT crowd.
Bet that headline doesn’t hold up in Dearborn, MI.
Not clicking, but chicken is now our mainstay...
Beef is up, oil is down.
Both supply driven, it seems.
I prefer elk over all of them.
Food was cheap when Bush left office. Ground beef was $1.99 lb. That’s a fact.
This will enrage the muzzies!!! (of course, everything enrages the muzzies)
Get some birds for a barnyard flock, scatter some feed, and you’ve got a meat source.
More complicated raising pigs, and way more expensive raising cattle.
And speaking of pork, how about all those feral hogs out there?
Unless it is in the clearance bin hitting its expiration date, beef has pretty much priced itself out of my basket.
Feral boars are pretty much inedible. Between chicken and hogs you left out rabbits. If you have a way to cheaply feed them.
Another eight years of commies running the show and working Americans will consider Carp a luxury fish
Maybe not.
Beef is a premium product in a world market, and the dollar is being devalued. Also, the US government and MSM intend to make beef production as difficult and expensive as possible, for the sake of Mother Gaia.
This has been going on for decades.
I can remember my parents and their siblings substituting pork for beef when the beef prices got too and vice versa.
Walmart and Safeway in our areas have reduced the beef shelf areas in their stores and expanded their pork products shelf areas.
We will find out this week how Costco has respounded.
Beef is up, oil is down.
Both supply driven, it seems.
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