Government control of the meat industry, which has virtually eliminated small processors, is a far bigger factor than the drought in raising retail prices.
You mean the consolidation of the US meat industry into a few companies - like Tyson and JBS?
Are you saying that “government control” has produced industry consolidation? You don’t think that UN-controlled capitalism had something to do with it?
(By the way, I’m not sentimental about the small homesteader going extinct. The only way you feed 350 million Americans is through industrialized food production.)
Sounds like something Congress would have to deal with so that problem will never get fixed.