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The cause is 100% the orange morons tariffs on this one.

Beef prices are cyclical. This is because beef producers have a lag time between price increases and their ability to increase their herds (2-3 years).

Historically when beef prices go up, domestic producers sell down their herds to capitalize on the higher pricing. Then imports increase to meet the demand and prices slump. It's usually only a year or two of high prices and 7-8 years of low prices. Producers are conditioned to sell down their herds when prices are high then slowly rebuild them when prices are low.

Enter the orange moron:

Prices were at a normal cyclical high when he started throwing his tantrum and shitting in his diaper. With all the tariffs, producers in other countries decreased their stocking levels.. So prices are soaring.

Demand has remained stable because the largest market is fast food chains. Guess who has spent the past 5 years jacking up prices and making record corporate profits?

Now for more bad news.

Hay prices are beyond depressed. With the decrease in herd size this is normal as supply increases. Again the export market usually absorbs the supply readily with the cheaper pricing. Then as beef prices fall, hay prices climb as producers rebuild their herds. Except the orange moron stepped in and killed the export market. So prices are very low, and supply is very high. We are talking high enough that there will be a shit ton of "mysterious" hay stack fires this fall for insurance claims.

Beef producers and hay producers are often the same operation. Since hay is worthless right now they can not build up their herds and have to keep selling animals to make ends meet.

So the prices at the store are only going to climb higher. Meanwhile the producers are stuck facing diminishing returns as their herd size decreases.

In summary, beans are looking pretty affordable right now.

This is not the cure. As the article says:

High prices are the cure for high prices because they are the signal for ranchers to try to expand their herds.

This will lead ranchers to ~~expansion~~ expand their herds.

Yeah, IF the higher prices caused consumers to eat less beef, but that's not necessarily going to happen.

all of agriculture is about 1/5 of our ghge, and we need to eat. let's shut down the war machines before we start telling poor people they need to change their lifestyles

Don't compare it to other meats. Compare it to corn, wheat, spinach, etc.

Its magnitudes worse than normal food.

If by fine you mean "destroying the Amazon to keep eating steaks" then yes, you're correct

Hmm idk about that. Where I'm from, 500g of minced beef is over 7 euros, and everyone I know has basically stopped buying beef, bc it's not worth it anymore. And we are historically a big consumer of beef. Tbh less beef consumption is probably a good thing, in the grand scheme of things, but that doesn't stop people complaining about it ofc.

Drives me crazy that "beans" isn't listed on the "protein" section of restaurants.

Never stop winning.

Yesterday i made rice with beans and i used to eat that to save money or i didn't have anything else. Now i just absolutely enjoy it.

But instead states are rushing to ban lab meat.

The only beef we should grow is luxury beef. Think waguy and that shit.

Normal people don’t need to eat beef daily, there’s no need

I know you're fucking around, but we... did get the laptop? That's what the whole laptop controversy was about- the contents of the laptop.

Trump is imposing tariffs on Brazil, and Brazil is one of the biggest beef producers in the world and the biggest choice producer, so that explains those two

It's a golden age of profiteering.

And mexico paid for the wall 10 years ago

High five bean buddy!

They'll eat each other before that happens.

I would gladly take conservative vegans over regular conservatives.