“The scam is simple: charge the same, deliver less.”
Keeping cattle is much more expensive than it was only a few years ago. So companies have to make a choice, charge more or deliver less.
I’m not surprised they’re making the exact same corporate decision that consumers have favored. It’s the Chinese product model. Consumers picked products based on price and put many American companies out of business by purchasing cheaper Chinese knockoffs. Then when the American companies were out of the picture the Chinese companies cheapened the product. It’s called “quality drift”.
The answer is to stop shopping at big box stores. Buy higher quality goods—whether food, clothing, or otherwise—and buy less of it.
That’s a baldfaced lie.
When the offshoring craze to China started, it was nearly impossible to FIND made-in-America: the stores quit stocking those items.
The industry then used the low sales as retroactive justification for the offshoring.
(Remember Ross Perot and his “giant sucking sound” ? Even though he was talking about Mexico, he was right.)