that’s why you go to food banks. or calorie count to maximize your calories per dollar. i’ve been there.
but things cost what they cost. whether you think they should cost that much… that’s the perception. a lot of USA foodstuffs are highly subsidized and others are not. Red meat is a luxury food and is priced accordingly and if anything it’s still underpriced vastly compared to it’s true cost.
Pork and chicken are much cheaper. I can get a whole chicken for $2/lbs… do that’s mostly what I eat for protein these days. I’d be insane if I was buying red meat at the $15-25/lb it costs. but i also thought it was insane back when it was only 10/lb.
If you are buying lobster or other high priced foods while financially struggling… that’s just making bad choices.
Red meat is a luxury food and is priced accordingly
Its really not. If you look at the beef industry profit margins in the last 6 years, they got supercharged during and after the pandemic because they realized that due to the restrictions placed on imports they could charge whatever they wanted for beef.
that’s why you go to food banks. or calorie count to maximize your calories per dollar. i’ve been there.
but things cost what they cost. whether you think they should cost that much… that’s the perception. a lot of USA foodstuffs are highly subsidized and others are not. Red meat is a luxury food and is priced accordingly and if anything it’s still underpriced vastly compared to it’s true cost.
Pork and chicken are much cheaper. I can get a whole chicken for $2/lbs… do that’s mostly what I eat for protein these days. I’d be insane if I was buying red meat at the $15-25/lb it costs. but i also thought it was insane back when it was only 10/lb.
If you are buying lobster or other high priced foods while financially struggling… that’s just making bad choices.
Its really not. If you look at the beef industry profit margins in the last 6 years, they got supercharged during and after the pandemic because they realized that due to the restrictions placed on imports they could charge whatever they wanted for beef.
https://www.ers.usda.gov/topics/animal-products/cattle-beef/statistics-information
Beef consumption rates haven’t changed much at all in the last 20 years. Yet profit margins have more that doubled.
Chicken price increases at least have the excuse of the bird flu epidemic wiping out millions of birds in a really short period of time.