Trump has managed to slow inflation to a great extent. Gas is cheaper. Eggs are cheaper. Lots of stuff is cheaper now than it was under Biden.
What isn’t cheaper? Beef.
And so the news media wants to talk about beef, beef, beef, beef and more beef.
It takes months for chickens and hogs to mature but cattle 2-3 years.
But, but cows fart. So much gas. We're all going to DIE..!!
So long as energy prices stay high ALL things will cost more. People forget that just because an item doesn’t CONTAIN energy (e.g., bread contains flour) then energy must not figure in its cost.
To move, package, inspect, etc — this all takes energy.
“What isn’t cheaper? Beef.”
Because of the Biden Beef Blockade
America’s beef herd is low due to drought and a few other issues; and demand is higher. The high prices are not due to inflation. And Trump has been trying to get the price down, like cutting out the middle man who ranchers are upset with. It takes a few years go increase the size of the heard. America should have a better plan in place to protect the size of the herd. But then, half of Americans don’t know what a man and a woman are.
Once the price of beef comes down, they will care a lot about methane from cattle digestion and how it contributes to Climate Change.
Right after the 2020 ComDem theft of the office of the President, the people making the policies remove millions of acres of public lands out west that, for over a century, were used by ranchers for grazing purposes. Those lands had/have no better use. Ranchers had to decrease the size of their herds.
IIRC it was then in 2023 when there was a large drought out west that forced the ranchers to cull their herds further due to the lack of grazing ability.
It takes several years to increase bovine herds versus fowl or other forms of meat. 2025 has only been two years since the drought so the prices will decrease slowly over the next couple of years.