Why is beef so expensive these days?
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People just need to shut up and eat their oil burger.
I was pretty happy when Costco undercut the FoodSaver bags.
I sealed up 6-8# of fresh raspberries from my yard this summer. Do the same with cranberries so I can make bread/muffins all year round.
Great for storing garden veggies and breaking up bulk meat packages into 1# portions for the freezer.
Grocery store near me relocated this summer into a "mega store", and they had a $2/# ground turkey special for 93% lean meat.
I bought up a bunch of those, froze and then pulled them out of the shitty foam trays that take up a ton of space, and vac sealed into bags. Kind of wish I'd have bought more, as there was no limit...
I use the turkey in this awesome soup recipe, that is basically "opening up a bunch of cans" and heating in the crock pot.
Aside from browning turkey meat (or pulled chicken or pork) along w/ an onion, there's no real "cooking" here; prep takes <15 minutes.
I'll actually use 1/3# dried beans soaked overnight if I don't have canned on-hand, and use canned corn. Crazy easy recipe, and one of my favorites.
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Holy shit. That’s super cheap. The cheapest I could get a quarter is $6/pound after processing. And that is the very low end. Average is probably around $7.
I’ve found buying a hog doesn’t pencil out. Costco is slightly cheaper and I can get almost every cut I want. Hams would probably be the exception, but I’ve been really disappointed with my hams from the last two hogs I’ve bought. Had it processed in two different places and they’ve been in too much of a hurry when it came to curing the hams.
Have you ever thought about doing your own processing? I think I could have a decent setup for about $2000, but it seems like a lot of work.
Where are you getting your beef from? I live in around central Iowa and on FB you can easily look and ask around in the small town community FB pages or in other groups and the local farmers come out of the wood work. I’m getting farm eggs for $3 a dozen and I’ll be getting beef I’m guessing around $5 a pound after processing. Last half beef I got in Feb was around $4.70 but I assume that will go up
I’m too much of a pussy to do that haha. I’ll happily pay a local meat locker to do that for me
A guy I work with who lives in northern South Dakota quoted me $4 for the steer. I figured around $2 to cut and wrap. I live in north central North Dakota and I don’t think I could get a steer cheaper than $4. Hamburger is around $5 if I buy direct from a farmer.
I just got a quarter from family for $3.60 per pound across the board. Raised entirely on grass kept price low with some finishing on grain. Locker fees were pretty cheap too. Beef is fantastic.
Yeah, I don't know how they did it so cheap other than having tons of pasture. $2.50 per pound and locker was only $1.10. They said they weren't giving me the family discount but idk. I'll take it though.
This is all a play by the Lab Grown Meat industry, to make their stuff look cheap in comparison...
Yeah 10 years ago I split a quarter it was like 4.75 a pound. I'm also guessing it's $6-7 a pound these days.
I’ve cut WAY back on the amount of beef I consume. It’s costly and (maybe just to me) it just doesn’t have the flavor it used to have.I have mostly stopped buying it.
Add to the fact that it’s more difficult to digest than chicken and fish and it’s now maybe 2-3 times a month with a bit of indigestion following.
I still plan to have beef tenderloin for Christmas dinner so I’m going to have to spend $125 +/- on my holiday dinner entree.
Extra trim in my local Sams is $26.98. $18.98 otherwise.
F-I-L is a rancher, so we get a side of beef every year as a Christmas gift. Even if we didn't have that I would find a local producer and have it locally processed. Much cheaper than buying beef at store prices.
For pork, my B-I-L is a pork producer, wo we have that connection to buy a pig if we wanted to. It's not enough savings, and we really wouldn't have the freezer room anyways unless we bought another chest. Just couldn't justify it when we can just load up on pork when it is on sale and freeze it.
This is where we are lucky to live in a rural area. Lean into those connections and go in with friends and buy beef a half or quarter side at a time. Let the city dwellers pay full price.
Made about 35 pounds of ground burger and got a couple dozen loin steaks out of a 2 dollar landowner tag.
Reminds me of that old joke about the mechanic who charges 1000 bucks to tap a generator and get it running.
Bill: $1000
Time: $5
Knowing where to hit $995.
Reminds me of that old joke about the mechanic who charges 1000 bucks to tap a generator and get it running.
Bill: $1000
Time: $5
Knowing where to hit $995.
Agenda 2030 (Obama started and Biden has supported and funded) calls for the reduction in the amount of red meat consumption between 50-90%. They believe cow farts and methane are destroying the earth and causing climate change (you can read about this in the IPCC report). The power players like Bill Gates have been creating and pushing artificial protein (lab grown or crickets) as a way of replacing natural beef. The climate change cult has been pushing for the destruction of beef.
"GLOBAL Transformation to healthy diets by 2050 will require substantial dietary shifts. This includes a more than doubling in the consumption of healthy foods such as fruits, vegetables, legumes and nuts, and a greater than 50% reduction in global consumption of less healthy foods such as added sugars and red meat (i.e. primarily by reducing excessive consumption in wealthier countries)."
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"GLOBAL Transformation to healthy diets by 2050 will require substantial dietary shifts. This includes a more than doubling in the consumption of healthy foods such as fruits, vegetables, legumes and nuts, and a greater than 50% reduction in global consumption of less healthy foods such as added sugars and red meat (i.e. primarily by reducing excessive consumption in wealthier countries)."
The one crucial thing missing from Biden’s climate plan
There’s a burger-shaped hole in it.
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The red meat issue Biden won't touch
The administration wants to dramatically shrink farmers’ climate footprint. But Biden’s top officials aren’t talking about serious changes to America’s meat industry.
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The centralized planners for the West think they know what we should eat and they are going to do everything they can to make it happen. Here is their plan to decrease the consumption of red meat.
3. FUND AND FINANCE THE PROTEIN TRANSITION
• Increase funding for food and agriculture innovation by 50 percent and devote a
portion of this funding to alternative proteins.
• Carve out 10 percent of forest finance for the protein transition.
• Make alternative proteins an integral part of the U.S. Agency for
International Development (USAID) strategy.
• Set aside funding for alternative proteins in the Green Climate Fund.
• Leverage the protein transition to help achieve the U.S. International Development
Finance Corporation’s (DFC) climate goals.
• Carve out a portion of the American Jobs Plan, President Biden’s infrastructure plan,
to support innovation in the protein transition: Public investment in research will
stimulate economic growth and create jobs.
• Launch research and development (R&D) partnerships: Bilateral or plurilateral R&D
partnerships between and among leading countries that would advance global
alternative protein science, innovation, and diffusion to ensure that alternative
protein products can compete with animal sources. Innovation and commercialization
partnerships could focus on Brazil, Israel, Singapore and Europe. Partnerships to build
awareness and capacity in major emerging nations might begin with India and China
Conclusion
Governments that invest in alternative protein science, innovation, and commercialization will become global leaders in reducing agricultural emissions, improving human health, protecting biodiversity, and increasing food systems resilience. As the world’s foremost leader in alternative protein innovation, the United States should become the global leader in promoting international cooperation in this area. Doing so would make an
enormous contribution to meeting the long-term goals of the Paris Agreement while also advancing U.S. economic interests and global sustainable development
3. FUND AND FINANCE THE PROTEIN TRANSITION
• Increase funding for food and agriculture innovation by 50 percent and devote a
portion of this funding to alternative proteins.
• Carve out 10 percent of forest finance for the protein transition.
• Make alternative proteins an integral part of the U.S. Agency for
International Development (USAID) strategy.
• Set aside funding for alternative proteins in the Green Climate Fund.
• Leverage the protein transition to help achieve the U.S. International Development
Finance Corporation’s (DFC) climate goals.
• Carve out a portion of the American Jobs Plan, President Biden’s infrastructure plan,
to support innovation in the protein transition: Public investment in research will
stimulate economic growth and create jobs.
• Launch research and development (R&D) partnerships: Bilateral or plurilateral R&D
partnerships between and among leading countries that would advance global
alternative protein science, innovation, and diffusion to ensure that alternative
protein products can compete with animal sources. Innovation and commercialization
partnerships could focus on Brazil, Israel, Singapore and Europe. Partnerships to build
awareness and capacity in major emerging nations might begin with India and China
Conclusion
Governments that invest in alternative protein science, innovation, and commercialization will become global leaders in reducing agricultural emissions, improving human health, protecting biodiversity, and increasing food systems resilience. As the world’s foremost leader in alternative protein innovation, the United States should become the global leader in promoting international cooperation in this area. Doing so would make an
enormous contribution to meeting the long-term goals of the Paris Agreement while also advancing U.S. economic interests and global sustainable development
What does this have to do with herds that were culled due to climate-change-induced Western droughts?
This has been explained to you in a dozen other posts, yet here you are, posting nonsense.
There is a reason to believe that some of the long stated “negatives” regarding red meat just might be true. As long as there is red and processed meat, there will be a need for oncologists and cardiologists. (A lot of folks are predisposed to these conditions and red and processed meats seem to be a catalyst towards developing cancers of the gut and heart disease. There is no “test” to weed out those individuals so predisposed.)
The key to what you said is processed meats. Not too many people would recommend hotdogs as being healthy. But this is exactly what is being pushed by the food industry. Everything is now processed with added sugar, salt and dyes.
I am very hopeful that rfk and trump may bring some sanity back to the food industry.
Cattle inventory is actually down over the course of 2024 I believe. Down 2% or so.
Beef Prices Soar to Record Highs, Yet Farmers Struggle to Reap the Benefits
For the first time in history the national average price for all fresh beef is above 8 dollars per pound.
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Not if there are stockholders to be considered. Stockholders are always the moral cop-out for corporate America.
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