Posted on 11/18/2022 5:37:12 AM PST by Red Badger
We Are Being Warned That Meat Prices Could Go Up Another 40 Or 50 Percent If you have been to the grocery store lately, you have probably noticed that meat prices have gone up dramatically. Unfortunately, we are being warned that things could get much worse in 2023. All over the northern hemisphere, cattle ranchers are dramatically reducing the size of their herds due to relentless drought conditions. Meanwhile, the bird flu has already resulted in the deaths of nearly 100 million chickens and turkeys in the United States and Europe. On top of everything else, progressive politicians throughout the western world continue to be absolutely determined to get us all to start eating less meat.
So prices are likely to continue to go up for the foreseeable future, and supplies are starting to get really tight.
In fact, a meat industry insider in Germany is actually claiming that several months from now “we will have nothing on the shelves”…
The German meat industry has warned of impending supply bottlenecks, especially concerning pork, and a board member is putting at least some of the blame on Germany’s current left-wing government, which is well-known for its attacks on meat and efforts to transition to a plant-based food supply.
“In four, five, six months, we will have nothing on the shelves,” predicts Hubert Kelliger, head of group sales at the large butcher Westfleisch and also a member of the board of the Meat Industry Association (VDF), according to Die Welt.
And Kelliger is also warning that whatever is on the shelves in 2023 is likely to cost “20, 30, or 40 percent” more than it does today…
“Whether that will be 20, 30, or 40 percent cannot be quantified today — but it will increase significantly again,” said Kelliger. Such an increase would already be on the back of already substantial increases. Germany has experienced an overall 40 percent increase in food prices this year, including a 73 percent increase in potatoes. Further price jumps ahead could be disastrous for German consumers.
Needless to say, we have been seeing similar price increases here in the United States.
The fact that so many U.S. ranchers have been slaughtering cattle due to the drought has helped to stabilize prices somewhat in the short-term, but as the size of the national cattle herd continues to decline the long-term outlook is not good at all.
In fact, some beef producers in Oklahoma are actually claiming that the price of ground beef could eventually go up to 50 dollars a pound…
Thanks to the unending economic symptoms of the pandemic and 2022’s inflation double-punch, average beef prices are currently about twice what they were in 2019. Add in the deepening widespread drought, a shortage of hay and feed, skyrocketing prices, transport costs, and various other metrics, some Southwest Oklahoma beef producers suggest cheap ground beef could eventually top $50 per pound.
Even worse, while beef is the topic because Oklahoma is a beef-producing state, the same trend is happening to other raised proteins at the moment too. The answer won’t be “We’ll just switch to chicken.” Those prices are steadily climbing too, and let’s not get depressed together thinking about bacon and pork loin.
Ground beef certainly won’t be that expensive next week or next month.
10 - Late Prepper But someday it will happen. If you love ground beef, what will you do then?
Thankfully, the elite have already been working on a solution for you.
In fact, just this week the FDA announced that one form of “lab-grown meat” is now ready for public consumption…
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the first time cleared a meat product grown from animal cells for human consumption, the agency announced on Wednesday.
UPSIDE Foods, a company that makes cell-cultured chicken by harvesting cells from live animals and using the cells to grow meat in stainless-steel tanks, will be able to bring its products to market once it has been inspected by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), said a release from the FDA.
Doesn’t that sound yummy?
And as I have covered previously, other companies are working on developing something called “beetle burgers”.
This is the future that the elite have planned for us, but the truth is that they aren’t going to be able to rescue us from the extreme global food shortages that are coming.
The UN is telling us that eight billion people live on the planet now.
As global food supplies get tighter and tighter, we aren’t going to be able to feed them all, and food prices will rise to levels that most people could not even imagine right now.
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.
Ping
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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