By comparison, I just priced fresh pork and fresh ground beef and they come out to $2.88 a pound and $2.24 a pound respectively. Even cheaper is poultry, which comes out to less than a dollar a pound if you buy it whole. An advantage to buying chickens (or turkeys) whole is that you can make soup out of it, further stretching your food dollar, which our family has done many times.
I believe this story is one designed to make us think we are all at deaths door, another scare tactic to help boost Bozo, so that after he takes over they can say, see things are instantly better! They should clear their crap with Bozo though because he is saying today that he can't cure everything instantly, quite a "change" from his campaign rhetoric, one can only "hope" he is scared sh**less at being President!