Meat and Poultry Is Wildly Expensive Now — and It Could Be Due to Price Fixing

Food & Wine ^ | August 30, 2024 | Stacey Leasca

[E. Pluribus Unum]

B period S period.

Unless you consider utilizing the law of supply-and-demand to set the price to be “price fixing.”

[GrumpyOldGuy]

Just in time for price control justification. NO.

[Fledermaus]

Typical liberal BS.

[blackdog]

Chain grocery stores no longer have meat cutters or butchers as the meat managers. No cutting or wrapping. Everything comes in already packaged for display. You can't ask for two inch thick NY Strips, or a whole salmon, or a whole Chuck roast ground up. No haggling. No more whole prime rib. No more whole NY Strip. My Kroger threw away all the Hobart band saws, meat grinders, and such. I used to take all my kitchen knives twice a year for free sharpening. Not any more! The equipment is all gone.

What's the point in buying a 3/8" thick NY Strip? You can't even cook it properly.

Whole Foods and Fresh Market still cut meats. Unfortunately paying $18 a pound for a steak is insane. Whole Foods does have pork belly of very good quality at a fair price.

[Leaning Right]

> This sounds like MSM setting up for Kamala’s “Price Gouging” stuff. <

Maybe there is price fixing. I don’t know. But your thought was my first thought as well. My Democrat senator has been running ads saying the same thing as Kamala. It communist pandering. They want price controls set by people who know nothing about economics, farming, or anything else.

But, hey. It works in Venezuela, so why not here?

[HereInTheHeartland]

“ Yes, especially if you count burning down poultry farms and cattle barns,
and infecting poultry with diseases. ”

There is a lot of meat around so that’s not affecting anything.
Grain is cheap so animals can be fed to higher weights so more meat produced that way .

[Flaming Conservative]

Except for bacon, pork has been cheaper than beef and most chicken here in northeast Oklahoma for at least three years. Beef is sky high.

[Flaming Conservative]

Aldi’s meat prices around here are high. Must be regional.

[Libloather]

Health decline and death

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[Grampa Dave]

Please read my Tagline!

[sheana]

At Walmart...cheapest dozen was $4.82 or 18 for $5.86. dayum.

[linMcHlp]

Problems:

- higher costs of doing business

- Big Chicken gets bigger in response to higher costs

- Big Chicken reduces locations

- longer delivery paths

[TigersEye]

Apparently the costs of labor, fuel, feed and fertilizer haven’t gone up in this industry.
It’s all price fixing.

[Varsity Flight]

Did they ask Jimmy Dean about this?

[Cloverfarm]

We raise our own poultry and eggs and buy everything else locally. The price of name brand feed has gone up considerable but from the local mill it is still affordable.

[Nervous Tick]

>> This sounds like MSM setting up for Kamala’s “Price Gouging stuff.

“Egg”zackly. 😉

[Clay Moore]

Jimmy Dean sausage complaint call.

https://youtu.be/f4RNb3tt0LM?si=4URW3oiYst9JnlwH

[SunTzuWu]

The government prints money and EVERYTHING costs more, not just meat. Too many dollars chasing too few goods. It’s text book.

[Bookshelf]

China controls the pork market in the USA.

[HIDEK6]

The ChiComs are active in the US meat processing industry.