28 Jul 22
Want Lower Meat Prices? ‘We Need to Break Up Big Ag’
Food prices are soaring because “monopolies are driving up the price you pay for food” and “slowly killing rural America,” according to Robert Reich, author, lawyer, former U.S. secretary of labor and co-founder of Inequality Media.
https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/meat-prices-big-agriculture-monopolies/
@metal-brain saidMeat is far too cheap.
Want Lower Meat Prices? ‘We Need to Break Up Big Ag’
Food prices are soaring because “monopolies are driving up the price you pay for food” and “slowly killing rural America,” according to Robert Reich, author, lawyer, former U.S. secretary of labor and co-founder of Inequality Media.
https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/meat-prices-big-agriculture-monopolies/
feed the needy people first using soy and cereals, and then feed your pigs to have meat.
eat meat sparingly anyway
28 Jul 22
@ponderable saidTry coming to the USA and buy some beef. Even hamburger is really expensive.
Meat is far too cheap.
feed the needy people first using soy and cereals, and then feed your pigs to have meat.
eat meat sparingly anyway
I used to make tacos and burritos at home, but cannot afford the hamburger anymore.
@metal-brain saidTry a chilli bean burger, given the hormones and other crap that’s in the industrialised beef I wouldn’t take a freebie.
Try coming to the USA and buy some beef. Even hamburger is really expensive.
I used to make tacos and burritos at home, but cannot afford the hamburger anymore.
Meat should be a once or twice a week treat if you want it and watch the quality improve.
28 Jul 22
@metal-brain saidI pay about 40 Euros per Kilo here for quality meat.
Try coming to the USA and buy some beef. Even hamburger is really expensive.
I used to make tacos and burritos at home, but cannot afford the hamburger anymore.
I can get it is cheap as below 10 Euros if I am content with low quality in the discounter.
@metal-brain saidYou’re American. You all have guns to go out hunting. Hunt some bloody food!
Try coming to the USA and buy some beef. Even hamburger is really expensive.
I used to make tacos and burritos at home, but cannot afford the hamburger anymore.
Boar, deer, pheasant, wood pigeon… all absolutely gorgeous!
28 Jul 22
@ponderable saidI pay about 30 euros a kilo for top quality beef (like a 1.2 kg ribeye, which you seer and then finish in the oven and cut your own steaks out of).
I pay about 40 Euros per Kilo here for quality meat.
I can get it is cheap as below 10 Euros if I am content with low quality in the discounter.
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28 Jul 22
@metal-brain saidYe gods... the ignorance...
Try coming to the USA and buy some beef. Even hamburger is really expensive.
You've never had real meat in your life, have you?
28 Jul 22
@shallow-blue saidI grew up on a dairy farm. I helped butcher young bulls for veal when I was a teenager. I own chickens.
Ye gods... the ignorance...
You've never had real meat in your life, have you?
Do you know how ridiculous you seem to me?
@metal-brain saidNot half as ridiculous as you seem to us.
I grew up on a dairy farm. I helped butcher young bulls for veal when I was a teenager. I own chickens.
Do you know how ridiculous you seem to me?
However, if you can’t afford mince, that is a serious issue. How much does a kiloof mince cost in the US now?
We pay roughly 9 euros for medium quality beef mince in the Netherlands.
29 Jul 22
@shavixmir saidYou don't live in the USA. You couldn't possibly know how bad it is here.
Not half as ridiculous as you seem to us.
However, if you can’t afford mince, that is a serious issue. How much does a kiloof mince cost in the US now?
We pay roughly 9 euros for medium quality beef mince in the Netherlands.
That is why you are ridiculous. Price fixing is something you support apparently.
Who is paying you to defend corruption?
01 Aug 22
@shavixmir saidNot all Americans have guns and even if they did not everybody is good at hunting.
You’re American. You all have guns to go out hunting. Hunt some bloody food!
Boar, deer, pheasant, wood pigeon… all absolutely gorgeous!
Some parts of the agricultural sector are rife with other damaging antitrust violations that we haven’t seen in Big Tech. This includes alleged conspiracies to fix prices and allocate markets — practices that are made possible by high levels of consolidation and concentration.
One of the most notable examples of this is in beef packing, where the top four firms now control about 85% of the national market. Given the market power that the packers possess, it comes as no surprise that they have allegedly abused it: On multiple occasions, these packers have been accused of colluding to pay ranchers less for cattle and charge consumers more for beef.
However, this behavior isn’t unique to the beef-packing sector. Similar allegations of price fixing have been leveled against tuna, chicken, turkey, egg, pork and peanut producers, among others. These cartels are especially egregious because processors allegedly collude on both the sell and buy sides, hurting both farmers and consumers — including independent restaurants and grocery stores.