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.
I never got passed to the consumer though. Just kept climbing. Cargill is raking in killer profits.
I had a summer job as a track man on an Erie & Lackawanna Railroad section gang, at $1.85 per hour, a great wage for a 20 year old College Joe getting ready for his senior year's tuition. But there was enough margin for me to buy steaks to treat my Dad, Mom, two Grandmas, and soon-to-be-engaged girlfriend. I could do with less than two days' wages of hard work, three or four times that memorable year.
In the evenings I was reading the autobiography of our dear war hero President Ike, still enjoying the morality of a decent environment, moving ahead confidently, even though in a "Cold War."
I was also glad that Joe McCarthy and VP Nixon were staying ontop of thing, although a number of social do-gooders and movie star aficianos were not. But I was quite happy for gaining traction in the New York Army National Guard combat arms that I'd enlisted in the year before.
A Great Society won by the GI veterans that trained me, and their dedicated civilian praying supporters, was coming to an end, unbeknown by the last of us born in it, never to recur.
Only a few yet alive can understand the sense of it, and now yearn with tears for its past joys and romances, free of psychoactive drugs and overwhelming vociferous "gayism."
It can be said that the lamentable decline can be laid squarely at the door of the irreligious unchristian "progressive" minority who have schemed to overturn the written Will of our Founders--the Declaration of Independence from titled moneyed tyranny embodied in the language of their Constitution of how we should be governed, even today. But now we can't even select our representatives by vote, but must submit to liars securing the rule overus through a surplus of policy-determning fake harvested ballots, not the will of real living reasoning humans.
That we should dine on pretend-vegetable flora from yeast or gene-modified microbes and lab-grown ovine, bovine, or porcine "flesh" marketed as animal muscle tissue (who knows that it is not "anus" rather than Angus?); what a parody of human success in the application of science to sustain the bionic activity its externally re-genderized demonic spiritually dead jiving posterity.
God help us and the three or four generations that have followed.
May the prophesied return of the Savior for His Own be soon. Amen.
Maranatha!
I remember my parents telling us about how meat was the cheapest in the 1930s. Steak for breakfast, lunch, dinner.
So FDR decided to get the price UP by buying up millions of head of livestock, shooting and burying them.
And people who had no jobs and were starving in those years were denied the meat. It had to be buried.
They did, and still do, the same with agricultural products.
My neighbor had many acres of perfectly good peanuts they just plowed under......................
Well, genetcs will be a lot easier and quicker in the lab than on cow-borne grass-fed calves, eh? Mo barbwire, either.
I’ll eat less real meat for more money before eating their artificial crap
Great thing to muse on.
And Amen!!!!
If I have to resort to an alternative to beef, it will be something natural; not some crap from a lab.
My wise grandfather taught his grandchildren to respect ‘the taboo structure’ which civilizes a society. That is the very thing the evil has targeted and erased, the taboo structure. Such a structure is maintained by collective assent by we the people ... and destroyed by our inattention and shirking our sovereign responsibilities.
I’m in a couple of online discussion groups for “backyard” meats. One focuses on rabbits, one on quail. Both have been increasing drastically with people looking at home-grown meat sources.
It’s both encouraging and depressing to see.
I bought three chuck roasts last week @$4.99. Pork roasts are good, I can usually find them @$1.99. Chicken legs and thighs and whole chickens are cheap too. I gave up vegetables four years ago.
“May the prophesied return of the Savior for His Own be soon. Amen.
Maranatha!”
I could not have said any better.
Maranatha!
I guess I’d better fence my 13 acres and get some cows!
is that the big round bale?
At least we have cheap gasohol!
I throw away fertilizer with every flush.
My three miles down a county road that T’s from a state highway there are 16 homes.
The rest is fields of either corn or soybeans in alternating years.
One fella does have about a dozen cows.
LOL! Rabbit is as far down the Food Chain as I go. If I ever have squirrels in the attic, I’ll pass them on to you. ;)
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