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BLACKOUT: Morning News Shows Ignore Skyrocketing Meat Prices
NewsBusters ^ | 9/14/2021 | Joseph Vazquez

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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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; Politics
KEYWORDS: abc; cbs; economy; food; inflation; meatprices; nbc
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1 posted on 09/14/2021 2:25:55 PM PDT by JV3MRC
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The past few Presidents have been printing money like there's no tomorrow. This was bound to happen. People are losing what they worked for their entire lives. Too bad they didn't chose their representatives more wisely.


2 posted on 09/14/2021 2:29:53 PM PDT by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: JV3MRC

We are now living in a Salvador Dali painting.


3 posted on 09/14/2021 2:30:16 PM PDT by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin (Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
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4 posted on 09/14/2021 2:32:02 PM PDT by bankwalker (groupthink kills ...)
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National Public Radio (NPR) said that beef prices have surged a whopping “12.2% over the last year,”

Yeah, but at least there’s no more mean tweets.

5 posted on 09/14/2021 2:32:04 PM PDT by Drew68
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Last I heard, general inflation rate was now over 8% based on August data. Which is no being reported either.


6 posted on 09/14/2021 2:32:32 PM PDT by Robert A Cook PE (Method, motive, and opportunity: No morals, shear madness and hatred by those who cheat.)
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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.


7 posted on 09/14/2021 2:36:21 PM PDT by rellic
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They also have ignored the rising cost of PeLousys gormet 🍨 ice cream.


8 posted on 09/14/2021 2:37:02 PM PDT by Huskrrrr (Alinsky, you magnificent Bastard, I read your book!)
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We have local meat stores but I need to get a 2 deer freezer


9 posted on 09/14/2021 2:38:12 PM PDT by AppyPappy (How many fingers am I holding up, Winston? )
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i’d like to know who is buying 3 strip steaks for 53.00.
EBT crowd?


10 posted on 09/14/2021 2:39:47 PM PDT by ronniesgal (if more folks minded their own business the world would be a better place.)
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“Keto enthusiasts hardest hit” just isn’t a slogan to rile people up I guess.


11 posted on 09/14/2021 2:40:19 PM PDT by Wissa (Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth. -- Albert Einstein)
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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.


12 posted on 09/14/2021 2:42:37 PM PDT by FryingPan101 (I was wrong about Mitt Romney. I was wrong about Paul Ryan and the RNC. I’m ashamed.)
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To: rellic

Which island?


13 posted on 09/14/2021 2:43:45 PM PDT by EEGator
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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.


14 posted on 09/14/2021 2:45:45 PM PDT by Sequoyah101 (Politicians are only marginally good at one thing, being politicians. Otherwise they are fools.)
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Anything that makes Biden look bad is not reported, just like during 0bama.


15 posted on 09/14/2021 2:55:36 PM PDT by SkyDancer (How Can I Ask For Forgiveness If I Won't Forgive Others?)
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Heard it on ABC news radio last night.


16 posted on 09/14/2021 2:56:47 PM PDT by TomServo
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17 posted on 09/14/2021 2:59:15 PM PDT by PGR88
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All part of the plan. You see beef and poultry cause "greehouse gasses" [sic]. The Deep State wants you to eat porridge so that they can eat Kobi beef.

18 posted on 09/14/2021 3:00:23 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie (LORD, grant thy people grace to withstand the temptations of the world, the flesh, and the devil.)
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Maybe they’re turning? I don’t watch MSM news.


19 posted on 09/14/2021 3:00:31 PM PDT by SkyDancer (How Can I Ask For Forgiveness If I Won't Forgive Others?)
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To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin

or Hieronymus Bosch


20 posted on 09/14/2021 3:01:46 PM PDT by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. P144:1)
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