They don’t want you eating BEEF ... you will eat chemical ‘meat’ and bugs ... and, be happy.
Funny how other countries aren’t having these so called ‘cattle shortages’.
Our herd hasn’t gone down in size.
Hmmmm.
Funny how other countries aren’t having these so called ‘cattle shortages’.
Hmmm.... the herd size is adequate. The cost of beef to the consumer is “high”, apparently for many, us, too expensive.
So if we try to determine why the beef has become too expensive, we must start at the beginning. The individual cow.
How much has the cost of creating a calf and raising it to the market increased? Why?
If the supply of marketable cattle is greater than demand, then the excess supply must be sold at a reduced price. If a reduced price is less than the rancher’s cost, then unprofitably existing may cease altogether. Beef will just disappear
“Funny how other countries aren’t having these so called ‘cattle shortages’.”
The Netherlands, pretty much the farming capital of Europe, is in the process of shutting down their huge beef industry also.
I suspect the real problem is that people (who pay attention) are wising up and finally realizing that the reason humans love meat, particularly beef, particularly Fatty Beef, is that it is the HEALTHIEST food we can buy. We are programmed to looked for and prioritize HEALTHY food, or we would have joined other pre-humans and died out.
The herd hasnt grown to size because it is not profitable to do so.
If I raise one for slaughter and it costs 1500 to get it from birth to market, and I make 3000, there is 1500 profit.
If I raise two and it costs 1500 each from birth to market, and I get 4500 for both of them, I made 1500. Absolutely zero reason to deal with an additional one.
There is a monopoly on meat in the us where something like 85-90% 9f the cattle are owned by 5 mega corporations.
Same with processing plants that the FDA has put hard burdens on, making it hard for a smaller ranch to process.