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  • Meat Prices Will Triple in the Coming Weeks as Grocery Stores Struggle With Shortages

    06/26/2023 12:46:08 PM PDT · by CFW · 55 replies
    Discern Report ^ | 6/25/23 | Epic economist
    If you’re planning to buy some beef to throw on the grill over the next few weeks, expect to pay up to three times more than you did just a couple of years ago, when our domestic supply was plentiful due to a historic cattle selloff. Since 2021, ranchers have been coping with drought and record feed prices, which forced many of them to send their animals for slaughter earlier than usual. And while that led to a higher supply and steadier prices back then, now it is resulting in falling production, empty shelves, and a painful spike in prices...
  • Meat shortages: The wages of 'cheap' illegal labor

    04/20/2020 6:53:01 AM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 37 replies
    American Thinker ^ | 04/20/2020 | Monica Showalter
    In 2004's preachy, much panned leftist mockumentary, A Day without a Mexican, the supposedly hypothetical scenario, about how California would fall apart if all its Mexicans, including illegals, somehow disappeared, was acted out.  The film had a grand old time portraying white people as a bunch of soft, privileged fools, unable to clean even their own toilets. This is annoying because it lumps most Americans into a stereotype of a typically feckless, over-monied limousine liberal, such as you might really find in Hollywood circles. But it did raise the question of U.S. dependence on illegal foreign labor. Seems we might just be experiencing that now with the big meat...