Retail beef prices are soaring, but I can tell you from the other end, auction sale prices of market weight steers sure as fuck hasn't gone up that much.
Lot of squeezing happening in the middle somewhere. Curious, that one.
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We noticed this when we went to a Texas Roadhouse. Their restaurant prices for steaks hadn’t gone up hardly at all and seemed very surprisingly reasonable, whole beef at the grocer is painful.
It's been that way for a while. If there is no sale I can get a restaurant steak cheaper than the store.
Living in Nebraska I can get shrimp, lobster , salmon, tuna steaks far cheaper than a fucking ribeye right now
I dont want to sound condescending but this is pretty simple economics.
If you tax imports then vendors of local products will increase prices to match the imported goods.
The market for local beef is an oligopoly with only a few buyers, so it's easy for them to manipulate the price.
The market for local beef is an oligopoly with only a few buyers, so it’s easy for them to manipulate the price
That's an oligopsony, not an oligopoly which would have only a few sellers.
Not sure where you are, but here in Alberta it's more than double what it was a few years ago to buy a half steer, and I'm buying from a family member.
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Good for the environment:]
Great time for people to go vegan if they aren't already
Beans are hella cheap!
I love beans. So many ways to eat them. I put white acre peas and tuna in mac & cheese a little while ago, and look forward to eating it again.
And suddenly MAGA was vegan because it's "patriotic" or something...
This may surprise you, but a lot of far/right people are vegan, and into permaculture, recycling, etc.
A lot of far right people are into whatever an influencer does because that's their news.
They are not vegan. They are into permaculture because they're in a "manly man make money women stay home" cult and they can't afford to have 5 kids and a stay at home wife on husband's paycheck.
Those who have the room usually raise chickens at least, there's centrally not a large intersection of vegans and far right people.
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Trump is trying to take your hamburgers away.
hamberders
You put a 50% tariff on Brazil, your biggest exporter of meat, and you wonder why prices soar... Fucking dumbasses.
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MAYBE if we give Producers LESS Regulations and Competition they'll DROP Prices?
-Donald Trump and ALSO Democrats!
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People will just switch to chicken, pork, or add “meat free Friday” to their menus. Consumers are fed up at this point and aren’t going to pay some of these prices.
I am a vegetarian, however my dog is not. She has multiple allergies (chicken, and all grains) and I have to cook her food for her. It is getting really expensive to feed her.
Look into rabbit or kangaroo, depending on where you're located they could be reasonably priced vs beef. Pets with common protein allergies usually don't have reactions to those, or venison for that matter.
Source: one of our cats is allergic to basically all poultry, we switched to rabbit and salmon based foods
Look into rabbit or kangaroo
Interesting how things that hop don't have the triggering protein. Now I wonder how frog and crickets would compare...
Lmao. Seriously though it's exposure; beef, chicken and pork are the cheapest and most common animal proteins available to pet food manufacturers so they're in just about everything. If for some reason the animal has an immune response and those proteins are present at the time the immune system can decide that they're the cause and the animal then develops an allergy or sensitivity to them. With limited ingredient or single protein foods you're just dodging the proteins most pets are pre-exposed to.
One of our cats is so allergic to poultry (chicken, eggs, etc) that he'll scratch and chew himself bloody if he eats it consistently. We had to switch to rabbit and fish based foods or he was an unhappy creature.
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I'd be shocked if you could get cheap roo. I'm Australian and roo costs more than beef here.
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This is the result with my wife and I. Before I was pushing us to eat less beef for environmental reasons but years ago the price went up enough that its essentially a special occasion thing and fast food went out the window with their prices getting to high. What stinks is pork is something I wanted to eliminate but its cost vs quality tends to beat out all other meats except maybe the five dollar costco chickens.
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Any reduction in beef consumption is a win for the environment. I hope beef becomes completely unaffordable.
Edit: Instead of down voting, maybe do a cursory investigation into some of the top causes of climate change. It ain't bean sprouts causing it.
Yeah, and unlike gas prices going up there are readily available alternatives people can switch to easily with little cost.
if production doesn't decrease, the environment won't notice.
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Dear leader promised to lower grocery prices on day one so they must be low, right? Don't believe your eyes, just believe in the plan they say.
We're all going to be soo rich once the billionaires get theirs.
Beef is delicious and nutritionally dense. But $20-$30 per pound is what just regular-ass steak costs in NYC, so pork it is.
99c/lb butts and shoulders all summer. It's been great.
Good quality beef, pork, and chicken are all around the same price here, $8-10 per pound. Fish has been cheap just because it's so light, but it seems to have increased a lot, too. Salmon has gone from like $4 to $30 for a good-sized piece.
Where’s here for you?
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