Posted on 11/18/2022 5:37:12 AM PST by Red Badger
Other costs have gone up as well.
Could be there's nothing "artificial" about beef going up. This time it's inevitable. Ranchers are having a hard time.
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ha, don’t care, i will only eat wagyu beef now.
I have read that a lot of ranchers sent their cattle to market early rather than pay the higher feed costs, so that momentarily depressed the prices because of over supply. Now we face a shortage because the market has higher priced cattle and not as many to meet the demand so price necessarily goes up.
Restaurant quality steaks are going thru the roof and the consumer quality is prohibitive for low income families.
Expect hamburgers to become very expensive.....................
You will eat bugs and be happy.......................
I have a grinder and plenty of Bambis running around the place. Bought 12 new arrows last week.
Right now beef is still under $4 per pound where I live. That means I can grill the equivalent of a Double Quarter Pounder for $2 in meat cost, and so can just about anyone else who chooses to. When beef approaches $20 might be when significant numbers of people start moving away from it.
So consider $20 per pound as a minimum to start getting people off of beef and maybe $40 to get beef to be a ‘luxury’ food, that you only eat once or twice a year as part of celebrations.
A guy I knew that lived in Puerto Rico told me when he grew up, lobster was so cheap that they were getting sick of eating it. Then he moved here.
You’ll Put your eye out, kid!......................
Come to Wisconsin. We always have extra beef. Every male born of a dairy cow becomes veal or beef in 12 months. And each dairy farmer grows his own crops.
“Fifteen bucks for two New York steaks yesterday.
Coulda got the same for seven bucks ten years ago.
Commies suck.”
Agree, but they’ve barely started on this ‘project’. Fortunately the world is breaking into ‘camps’, and our ‘enemy camp’ (Russia/China/India) has no intention of going along with this crap, so Americans (if they can afford it) may still have places to go, and possibly move to, that allow them to still eat meat.
The Germans without their wursts? A recipe for another European war.
And just imagine, Sarah Palin was mocked for broaching the topic.
Back at the beginning of the 20th century, beef was considered ‘poor man’s meat’, while chicken and other poultry was the food of the ‘rich man’. That’s where the campaign slogan ‘Two Chickens in every pot!” came from.
Now it’s exact opposite.
But all animal feed has become more expensive and will result in huge meat shortages in the very near future................
It is the best of times, it is the wurst of times................
I can’t even do those for $5. Waste of my money. For $7, I can get a pound of Wagyu and make my own outrageously great burgers. Easy decision.
They’re calling Lab Meat Clean Meat ,LOL so me move from cheap real meat to very expensive lab meat , the Leftist’s are out of their minds
While this is undoubtedly true, the cost of fertilizer, which is dependent on natural gas as a raw material, has gone sky high................
I'm not sure a country where 80% of the population views eating beef as taboo is as meat-friendly as you think.
They are looking at ‘Economies of Scale’ that would bring the prices down to ‘equal’ farm grown beef, pork, etc.
But then, the huge FACTORIES necessary would just be another form of pollution destroying da ERF!.................
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