Posted on 02/26/2026 1:00:00 PM PST by PJ-Comix
Long story short. The current price of beef is high solely because of obvious ILLEGAL price fixing by the Big Four meat processors. The Trump justice department is currently investigating this especially in the wake of the recent exposé by James O'Keefe (link below). When the price of beef lowers by this summer, as I am sure it will, we all can thank President Trump and help the GOP in the midterm elections by recording and uploading videos of "AFFORDABLE Beef BBQs." The relief of consumers over the lower prices of beef can be best illustrated this way and definitely help at the ballot box during the midterm elections.
The Democrats are currently PRETENDING to care about "affordability" so let us make it boomerang on them by demonstrating to the public REAL affordability in action by uploading videos with "AFFORDABLE BEEF BBQ" somewhere in the title. Thank you, and enjoy your BBQ!
Undercover at CattleCon: Insiders Expose How The "Big Four" Secretly Control The Beef Market
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Well when is all that Argentina beef we paid $20 Billion for suppose to get here?
President Trump said at the SOTU beef prices were beginning to come down.
I just came back from my Publix and sure enough it is a bit cheaper.
And Publix is without a doubt THE most expensive grocery store chain in my town.
I’m guessing Winn Dixie will be even cheaper.
I love your energy, but there is no way to get basic wages up and housing down to the significant levels needed without evicting most of the 50 million illegals here currently.
And Trump has made it clear he has no interest in doing that.
They already failed by importing eggs to bring the price down and then trying to use that as evidence that all is fine.
While the meat processors are important, beef cattle are part of a complex, lengthy cycle—and they are making the US market worse by dumping cheap beef imports into it.
Clamping down on what slaughter houses charge might help.
Affordable BBQ at home.
We have a 70 year low in beef cattle. That is the reason we have high beef prices. We haven’t seen this few beef cattle since we had a country of 150M. We now have over 340M.
It’s a lack of supply. That’s why Trump is importing Venezuelan beef.
I used to be friends with a Winn-Dixie meat manager. I would show him packs of steaks that would be expiring in like five days and he would mark them down to $5. Not $5 per pound but $5 for the entire steak. And the steaks I picked were at least 2 pounds each. Unfortunately that Winn-Dixie closed down and the meat manager went with it.
Great video, PJ.
Thanks for expanding O’Keefe’s reach with your own talent.
We are supremely blessed to get beef from local ranchers in Colorado. We buy one side a year, of grass-fed beeves, for the past 6 or so years.
About $1,600 for half a cow, and another $300 for processing and packaging. It works out to about $7/lb average for ground, ribs, roasts, steaks, and filet mignon.
It lasts us for more than a year, so we give away cuts of meat to friends and family. Charity food banks won’t accept our donations of frozen beef, which I find odd. Government rules I suppose.
I haven’t found a young person that wouldn’t accept 10-15 pounds of beef.
Venezuelan beef is fantastic because they eat real grass. My wife's family has a resort in the foothills of the Andes in western Venezuela and I saw (and ate) cattle on their land. The kind of cattle with humpbacks. And, WOW, did that beef taste great. They are set up for laaarge BBQs there. I visited in 2011 before things got really Chavista terrible there however with the recent change in the situation, I might be going back next year. Looking forward to MORE beef BBQs at the family resort.
Yes!
The one thing everyone has in common is going shopping for food.
This weeks’ shock was a pound of bacon for 8.99.
People do not remember whether you have made peace, stopped wars, closed the border.
What they remember is the price they paid for a pound of beef, a tomato or five pounds of onions, a gallon milk.
Do I believe that some stores are gouging? Yes. Compare what is in the stores and what is on Amazon. But overall the margin is thin.
Rico the meat packers. Go after the pork industry which ships its pork to China and back to the US processed. Help the smaller farmers.
Is that it on the bottom left?
They have new layers after the culling. Takes less than a year or so for a hen chicken to start laying.
The same companies (JBS and Tyson) are big players in the chicken and pork industry.
My suggestion...Break the companies up like Standard Oil and kick the foreigners out of meat processing.
Costco sells a 4 lb pack of Kirkland bacon for around $14...just over $4 a pound.
I mean $17.
“And Trump has made it clear he has no interest in doing that.”
That’s a weird TDS claim. Trump has effectively closed the border to continued illegal immigration attempts and has given CBP and ICE pretty much carte blanche to remove as many as possible as fast as possible.
It’s the progressive lawfare and activist judges gumming up the works.
Now you made me hungry.
I went to the store the other day and the cheapest beef they had (the high fat hamburger) was $6.99 a pound, and I refuse to pay that much as a matter of principle.
Bwahaha. Go stick your head back in the sand.
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