Posted on 09/14/2021 2:25:55 PM PDT by JV3MRC
The ABC, CBS and NBC morning news shows continued to shield President Joe Biden from bad economic news as meat prices for consumers skyrocketed across the country.
National Public Radio (NPR) said that beef prices have surged a whopping “12.2% over the last year,” based on a new Bureau of Labor Statistics inflation report. Here’s the kicker: The data show that beef is now “one of the costliest items in the surging bills that consumers face today at the grocery store.”
Food Dive reported in June of a spike in meat and poultry demand while meat processing companies were wrestling with worker shortages. The “surge in meat prices is contributing to high inflation,” NPR stated in its reporting. ABC’s Good Morning America, CBS Mornings, NBC’s Today and NBC’s 3rd Hour of Today failed to report the bad news during their Sept. 14, broadcasts.
The Consumer Price Index (CPI) increased 5.3 percent on a year-to-year basis, “still near the highest level in nearly 13 years,” NPR reported. Pork prices jumped "9.8 percent" in the last year while chicken prices jumped "7.2 percent." One cattle farmer put the skyrocketing costs of meat into perspective for NPR: “‘It's just outrageous. I can't even understand how people are supposed to be able to pay that kind of money for basic stuff like ground beef.’” But the Big Three morning news networks couldn’t be bothered to share any of this with viewers.
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We are now living in a Salvador Dali painting.
Yeah, but at least there’s no more mean tweets.
Last I heard, general inflation rate was now over 8% based on August data. Which is no being reported either.
I raise my own beef, I have chickens, and can easily get pork.
I am an exception. My beef cost is about $1.50 per pound from bones to vacuum packed steaks. I’m in Hawaii so cut and wrap is a little pricey.
You city people are screwed and yet you keep electing the people that are screwing you.
They also have ignored the rising cost of PeLousys gormet 🍨 ice cream.
We have local meat stores but I need to get a 2 deer freezer
i’d like to know who is buying 3 strip steaks for 53.00.
EBT crowd?
“Keto enthusiasts hardest hit” just isn’t a slogan to rile people up I guess.
Everything is thru the roof. I shopped for groceries today and actually put unnecessary items back on the shelf. On the way home I filled the gas tank on my Jeep. A whopping $42 for a not completely empty tank. I hope the people who sold their mail-in ballot for a taco, a beer, and a five dollar bill rot in hell.
Which island?
And yet, live cattle markets have hardly moved much at all.
Hmmmmmm?
https://www.nasdaq.com/market-activity/commodities/le
Think I’ll run up the road on Wednesday and buy a good looking steer to fatten. Plenty of hay in the barn and even though feed may go up my rib-eyes will not be nearly $20 a pound.
Anything that makes Biden look bad is not reported, just like during 0bama.
Heard it on ABC news radio last night.
Maybe they’re turning? I don’t watch MSM news.
or Hieronymus Bosch
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