Well...it is alarming news.
Warnings of the CEO of the largest pork producer in the US should be ignored?
Well, I was thinking about this and had actually gone on to another post, but I came back because, he states that Puritan Pride went bankrupt. Perhaps, but _someone_ is producing chicken under that label because I still see it in the grocery store. So bankrupt isn’t necessarily out of business.
OTOH, while the prices of all chickens have increased, the weight of the packages has declined at the same time. Whole roasters are still affordable and the same weights, but you get perhaps 20% less in cut-up chicken, especially if you buy skin-on, bone-in chicken beasts.
Pork is more expensive, too, of course, but it is still the most affordable meat if you buy the shoulder or a whole loin and portion it yourself. Bacon is way up. Even Spam has gone up, some.
It goes back to corn and corn goes back to diesel. Even with the off-road tax break, one of my farmer neighbors told us he will use over 850 gallons in a day when planting row crops and that is a huge expense.
I wonder if we will be forced back into the days when every family raised a pig on scraps? Except for the brand-new litters, which are adorable, raising pigs is a muddy, smelly business.