“Beef is still ridiculously expensive. Why?”
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Herds were sold down a couple of years ago
it takes time to raise more.
yes ... you can thank mr bidon
Here is the other half of the story.I will lay the food crisis squarely at the feet of Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg.
People forget about the ripple effect of the backlog at the Los Angleses port that most famously resulted in the scarcity of baby formula for many months.
People are forgetting that the root cause of the increased food prices today is due to the Biden-Harris-Buttigieg administration's failure to manage the supply chain back in 2022.If you recall, the fallout from the botched supply chain backup resulted in rail companies declaring force majeure and canceling transport contracts for grains and feedstocks to farmers. This forced farmers to dump milk, and eventually slaughter their chickens and livestock because they couldn't feed them. The rail companies had to prioritize their rolling stock to help alleviate the backlogs at the west coast shipping ports and transport those goods across the country.
We're now seeing the prices of milk, cheese, eggs, ground beef, bacon, bread, and other farm products rise because it takes years to recover from the slaughter of herds of beef livestock, milking cows, pigs, chickens, and the loss of the resulting dairy and meat byproducts.
-PJ