The price of BEEF has risen 59.2%

Washington Times ^ | September 10, 2021 | By Dave Boyer and Kery Murakami

[FreedomPoster]

When steak prices at Costco are making *me* wince, prices are HIGH!

[Pollard]

I’ll make sure to read the package. (and bring cash just in case)

[heavy metal]

c’mon man sunshine and unicorn rainbow farts are still free...

[FreedomPoster]

I am totally OK with Argentinian beef.

[FreedomPoster]

Who you jivin’ with that Cosmik Debris!?

[LibertyWoman]

I believe I'm going to start buy local and also from Good Ranchers. Their website is pretty detailed and they've been in business for quite awhile.

Something to keep in mind Pollard. Not all stores mark 'Product of the US'. That is a guarantee that it is from us but Congress ruled back during obama's regime (iirc) that COLA (country of origin) notification is no longer required. Even if it has USDA marked on the label, it does not guarantee it is from the US.

I buy my stock up stuff from Aldi and WM but I go to the local grocer for all meat. It's all stamped Product of the US.

[golfbrora]

Is that a real poncho, or a Sears poncho?

[rellic]

I raise my own beef. Grass fed.
It cost about $1.50 per pound regardless of the cut from calf to vacuum packed in the freezer.
That is not cheap. However at least I know what fed it, and how it was processed, from birth to my table and I didn’t need the government.

[FalloutShelterGirl]

Have you noticed how many anti-meat articles there are these days? It’s like they are slowly trying to condition us to an idea...

[Pollard]

I get all our meat from an independent grocer's small chain as well. Meat that would typically be Tyson/Smithfield is Prairie Farms which is based here in the Midwest. They do carry Smithfield bacon but also carry many other brands as well.

I want Kunekune pigs.

The only true pasture pig that can live off of grass/forbes. They root very little. Screw $10/lb bacon. I'll make my own.

[JD_UTDallas]

One lb of feed not need takes 2500+ gallons of water. Mostly in the corn to grow feed for it. An adult steer on pasture still drinks 75 gallons per day. Over it’s 18 month life even a pasture grass feed cow takes 490,000+ gallons for a 1200# market steer. That yields a 750# dressed whole carcass. Of that 450# is edible cuts the rest is fat,bone and various gristle. This doesn’t include a single drop for irrigation of that pasture grass. If it’s alfalfa grown in California with 100% irritation then it’s five acre feet of water per acre of alfalfa. California alfalfa is the single largest user of water in California well over 8 million acre feet. Each acre foot is 325800 gallons. The ratio of alfalfa pasture to cow is 10 acres to a single adult cow. Beef is an ENORMOUS user of water second only to sheep in water use per lb of protein. My family has raised cattle since the 1800s and it’s completely dependent on irrigation water and stock ponds which are both well feed in the arid West Texas ranch lands. At least be honest with ourselves about the water use for beef production.

[LibertyWoman]

Good for you. I was buy Prairie Farms products but their dairy products, especially milk went nuts. It's like 4.50 a gallon.

Never seen a pig like that. I'd have trouble butchering something that cute! lol!

[9YearLurker]

A dry, single patty burger? Is that like having your ground beef neat? Straight up? Without a twist? Neither shaken nor stirred?

[DesertRhino]

That would be the best way to remove the junta. A general strike. Hard to arrest you for it and hard to stop. And quickly you get into a reverse reward loop when the more they crack down, the more it grows.

[Pollard]

Well that was a piglet. This is what they look like grown up

[alternatives?]

“An adult steer on pasture still drinks 75 gallons per day.”

But the steer doesn’t destroy the water. It just recycles it. Some goes into the air due to evaporation, the rest goes into the ground and cycles through the water cycle. If the steer didn’t drink the water less would run though the water cycle for a spell until the water was used for something else. The water never is destroyed.

[LibertyWoman]

lol! Now that’s a face only a mother could love.

[servantboy777]

These leftist are a damn disaster.

[servantboy777]

>>..don’t forget to “thank” all our local democrats...especially in the voting booth.<<

Let’s give a round of applause to all those never Trumpers, those milk toast republicans that got their feelwings hurt from mean tweets.

[JD_UTDallas]

That water which in California case is drinking water cannot be directly reused as drinking water. Shallow ground water in the vadose zone is never used for drinking water due to surfical contamination from salts, animal feces, fertilizer run off to name a few. While technically correct most water used in animal respiration and hydration ends up in urine you cannot drink that. For arid climates most water loss is via the lungs of the animal more than half of intakes water is loss via evaporation in the lungs the rest is either incorporated into the live body weight as metabolic mass or excreted as urine.

I’m a Phd hydrogelologist cows use lots of water period there’s 50+ years of studies to prove it use Scidirect and spend a few hours learning. Irrigated pasture in semiarid or arid lands has evapotransporation rates of 50+ inches per year every drop of that 50+” ends up in the air and lost to the local water cycle.

The simple fact is once used for cattle and or pasture it’s lost to local water use this is why wells are drilled deep below the surface vadose zone and imported via aquaducts. I would challenge one to go drill a shallow well down stratagraphic dip from a cattle pasture and then drink that water even chlorinated to remove bacteria it will be loaded with salts, nitrates,and phosphorus well in excess of what is acceptable for animal let alone human consumption. Every acre of alfalfa that’s fallow is 5 acre feet of water for human use not lost to the air or contaminated shallow ground zone.