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"Once upon a time,
you paid 50 bucks for a steak only if your waiter wore a tux.

Now you pay it under fluorescent lights at the supermarket.

America has over half a million cattle ranches, but almost all that beef must pass through just four processors controlling about 85% of the market. Two of them—JBS and National Beef—are effectively controlled from Brazil.

Brazil is the world's biggest beef exporter. China is the world's biggest buyer. That means China ends up setting the price of dinner in America.

Ranchers get less, you pay more, profits flow overseas.

That's why Donald Trump has ordered the Department of Justice to act.

Americans didn't vote to have their dinner prices set overseas. They voted for leaders willing to break cartels and bring steak back to the dinner table without a tux."

“Once upon a time,
you paid 50 bucks for a steak only if your waiter wore a tux.

Now you pay it under fluorescent lights at the supermarket.”

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Ain’t that the truth.

Couldn’t afford it then and refuse to pay it now.

BUY LOCAL!

When I was a kid, my grandaddy had about 40-50 head of cattle. He sold/bought some at the local stock market and also butchered one or two in late fall/early winter for the family. Although we didn’t have in-home freezers like available today, about 10 miles away there was a town with a community locker freezer. My folks rented space there, drawer-size to walk-in depending on how much you could afford for the rental and the meat to store in it.

Don’t know if community freezers are even in existence these days. Do know there are local farmers who sell halves and quarters direct.