Beef prices are the new egg prices. They’re soaring | CNN Business
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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.
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
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.
Must be low prices in the west due to farmers being forced to sell and the buyers know it. In the East beef prices are jaw dropping high.
Greedflation/ Profit Gouging
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.
That's an oligopsony, not an oligopoly which would have only a few sellers.
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.
Trump is trying to take your hamburgers away.
hamberders
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
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 and feeding them one that doesn't cause their immune system to think they're under attack.
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. Just giving him a cat treat with chicken as an ingredient has him scratching his neck immediately and he'll have a couple of fresh scabs by the next morning.
That's really fascinating, TIL!
I'd be shocked if you could get cheap roo. I'm Australian and roo costs more than beef here.
I got a kilo of roo mince Monday for $13, beef mince was $20/kg
In the US or Australia? Curious because roo has always been pretty expensive here.
Brisbane
Ya gotta teach your kitties to chase down their own Roos. My kitties love to hunt mice, a Roo is just a big mouse.
Oh, right, I just remembered Sylvester getting his ass kicked by a Roo in the old Looney Tunes cartoons, maybe that isn't such a great idea.
Fair enough, roo protein cat food is about the same cost here as rabbit or venison but I'm assuming they're all a bit over priced
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.
Damn, it's the same exact thing at my house, I could have written this. Beef is absolutely a special occasion thing at my house, I now cook it maybe twice a year. I really dislike pork for various reasons, but chicken prices have gone up a lot too. I just can't do the pork though, sometimes I'll get sausage(s) when the local maker has them on sale, but thats it.
I've been preparing a lot more bean dishes this last year or so, often times I won't have meat so my husband and son can have it and it stretches further.
Beef is so resource intensive to produce, I'm not actually that upset its gotten so expensive, it probably should be expensive. So a beef dish feel special when we have do have it.
That last paragraph real rings with me to. Im not a good cook and my wife does that is a bit more meat centric than I. My dream would be a lacto/ovo frutarian but Im not sure I could do it even if I was rich with a highly skilled personal chef.
Sad to hear that a single day a week without eating meat is an inconvenience for some :(
MAYBE if we give Producers LESS Regulations and Competition they'll DROP Prices?
-Donald Trump and ALSO Democrats!
Same story since at least Reagan. Surely next time it will work!
Corporate dictatorship, doing corporate dictatorship things, because it's a corporate dictatorship.
I don't know, it seems trickle down has been a great success... for the wealthy!
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.
advertising increases or prices drop or new markets are opened
Surely a store with no customers will still exist! Love this argument and how solid the logic is. Follow your little thought experiment farther than just a few steps.
so you have a plan to make "no customers"?
By out competing the meat vendors, yes. I'm not saying we need to outlaw them.
good luck
People are too emotionally invested in meat. They'd rather die in record high temperatures than go without or even reduce.
I feel like the "I have to eat meat every day" people overlap a lot with the "I refuse to wear a mask" people. Are you thinking they're largely different people?
Probably pretty large, considering half of US beef consumption is by males aged 50-65.
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.
You put a 50% tariff on Brazil, your biggest exporter of meat, and you wonder why prices soar... Fucking dumbasses.
Lol, New Zealand imports more beef to the US than Brazil. Brazil is #5 at less than 10%.
https://www.ams.usda.gov/mnreports/lswimpe.pdf
Absolutely outdated source.
https://www.ers.usda.gov/amber-waves/2019/july/brazil-once-again-becomes-the-world-s-largest-beef-exporter?hl=en-GB
https://www.beefcentral.com/trade/brazil-surges-past-australia-as-largest-us-imported-beef-supplier/?hl=en-GB
https://www.garrainternational.com/brazilian-beef-exports-soar-in-2025-driven-by-strong-u-s-demand/?hl=en-GB
https://datamarnews.com/noticias/brazils-beef-exports-to-the-u-s-soar-by-498-despite-trumps-tariffs/?hl=en-GB
https://euromeatnews.com/Article-Brazilian-beef-exports-grow-in-June/8629?hl=en-GB
Among many, many, many other sources. So stfu if you don't know what you're talking about.
The sheer irony of this reply
Your original comment said "imports to the US" which is so incredibly hilariously wrong. Any which country "exports to" and "imports from". You can't have it both ways, doofus.
And the fact that you disagree with a given source doesn't make it false, lmao. You have a right to disagree, but the fact that you deleted your comment says enough IMO.
Please listen to the Beef and Dairy Network for survival tips.
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.
Appalachian region.
Or just get the lamb over rice. They say it's lamb; I know it's mystery meat, I don't care. Great success.
If meat from foreign countries was vermin, it would cost way more than steak.
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.
American beef is expensive because it is STRONG, not like the WEAK European beef that is cheap.
It's the year of veganism (and Linux) in your household.
But we're mainstream now, we need to improve our unbearability.
Anyone else like Tool? I use arch, btw.
Let's face it, as long as immigrants are scared of white men and women can't leave kitchen without permission MAGA will be fine with pretty much anything. They see it as a price worth paying for the feeling of being respected again.
I got a feeling this administration is gonna release a an influenza in late October that only affects the turkey industry. If he could he would wreck Thanksgiving for everyone. Simply speaking, it’s the folks that prop this puppet not just dt that need removal. It’s that Stephen Miller bitch who needs his skull turned into an ashtray. It’s the inhuman Tom Homan , he’s despicable on his best day. If we can begin that process of removal , I then have a shred of faith that America may begin to recover. Unfortunately, some serious sausage is gonna need to be tubed up. Well ya’ll understand how it happens. No need to go on to any further detail here.
These are the corpses of vulnerable individuals who experienced cruelty, violence, and atrocity. There is nothing provided by their bodies and secretions that a human being needs to be healthy and happy that cannot be obtained more cheaply without the exploitation and abuse of vulnerable individuals.
While i agree with you, phrasing it like this is just getting the whole topic ridiculed by anyone who doesn't already agree with you anyway..
But how would we know if that poster's a vegan if they didn't lecture us?
Where is the lecture?
You seem so personally attacked by someone responding to an article with facts of individuals suffering and suggesting we deviate.
Someone who rejects the content because they don't like the form is an idiot. Unfortunately, all of us are idiots like that.
The real sticking point is that if they agree out loud then they have to stop eating meat or be a hypocritical, and they won't accept either.
Please enlighten me on what makes this statement easy to ridicule? All they have said is these individuals deserve respect and we shoukd find proper alternatives elsewhere.
I think you should bemoan the people who ridicule rather than people asking for liberation of individuals.