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2015-10-06 Economy

Beef Isn't For Dinner Anymore as Americans Devour Cheaper Pork

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Posted by Fred 2015-10-06 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11130 views ] Top

#1 When 'all beef' guts, skin and tendons went to $7.65/lb for burger, this guy switched to pork steaks @$3.86/lb. Fresh free range, grass fed, unmedicated (wild) pork is less than that.

Posted by Skidmark 2015-10-06 00:36|| 2015-10-06 00:36|| Front Page Top

#2 I saw some serious slabs of pork tenderloin at the supermarket for about $3.50 / lb today; by way of comparison, freaking beef ribs that were half bone ran $4.95 / lb. I'll be cooking much more pork myself starting next week.

Posted by Raj 2015-10-06 01:26|| 2015-10-06 01:26|| Front Page Top

#3 This is an anti-Muslim plot, right?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2015-10-06 03:47|| 2015-10-06 03:47|| Front Page Top

#4 Its a Hindu plot.

Posted by BrerRabbit 2015-10-06 05:01|| 2015-10-06 05:01|| Front Page Top

#5 Testing. Testing

Posted by Sgt. Mom 2015-10-06 09:10|| 2015-10-06 09:10|| Front Page Top

#6 OK, I give up. I had a cogent point to make about pork historically being favored in the US until after the Civil War, when cheap beef became available ...

Posted by Sgt. Mom 2015-10-06 09:13|| 2015-10-06 09:13|| Front Page Top

#7 Meat Price Spreads

Posted by Sven the pelter 2015-10-06 11:53|| 2015-10-06 11:53|| Front Page Top

#8 The EPA made beef too expensive.

Posted by newc 2015-10-06 11:53|| 2015-10-06 11:53|| Front Page Top

#9 Venison, it's what's for dinner.

Posted by Glenmore 2015-10-06 11:54|| 2015-10-06 11:54|| Front Page Top

#10 It seems animal husbandry is needed, some cows have twins, cultivate these.

Posted by Redneck Jim 2015-10-06 12:47|| 2015-10-06 12:47|| Front Page Top

#11 Why Is Beef So Expensive This Year?

"Cattle need considerable amounts of space, food, and, perhaps most importantly, water—both to drink, and to grow all the food they eat. And, with the drought settling in for the long haul over the West, that water is getting harder and harder for U.S. ranchers to come by."

Posted by Sven the pelter 2015-10-06 12:59|| 2015-10-06 12:59|| Front Page Top

#12 Deer farms sound like they could be a moderately good idea. Most white-tailed deer mate in their second year, though some females occasionally mate as young as seven months. Mating occurs between October and December and females are pregnant for 6 and 1/2 months. In her first pregnancy, a female will usually only have one fawn, but after that she may give birth to 2 or 3. Fawns are able to walk at birth. They are nursed several times a day until they are 8 weeks old, after which they begin to add vegetation to their diet. Fawns are weaned by 10 weeks old. A mature deer weighs about 100 to 150 pounds.

I think that would make them breed at about the same rate as sheep, but easier to feed, since they eat wood, and a bit bigger. But they don't produce wool.

Posted by Fred 2015-10-06 13:52|| 2015-10-06 13:52|| Front Page Top

#13 They do produce leather, which would have PETA down on you.

Posted by Fred 2015-10-06 13:54|| 2015-10-06 13:54|| Front Page Top

#14 Fred, PETA is down on you just for eating meat.

Posted by Rambler in Virginia 2015-10-06 13:57|| 2015-10-06 13:57|| Front Page Top

#15 We had a drought in the west a couple of years ago. Hay prices soared and herds were culled. The resulting rise in the price of beef was predicted. It will subside over time as herds are replenished.

Posted by Iblis 2015-10-06 14:31|| 2015-10-06 14:31|| Front Page Top

#16 Wetness in California is tied to the Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO). When sea surface temperatures are anomalously cool in the interior North Pacific and warm along the Pacific Coast, and when sea level pressures are below average over the North Pacific, the PDO has a positive value. Positive PDO means wet in the southwest U.S. and northern Mexico. Negative PDO is tied to some of the worse droughts in California.

The PDO has switched back to positive values after a long negative spell so we shall see.

Posted by Sven the pelter 2015-10-06 14:59|| 2015-10-06 14:59|| Front Page Top

#17 Sven, is there any way we can blame this on global warming? Or Bush. That's almost as good.

Posted by Rambler in Virginia 2015-10-06 15:10|| 2015-10-06 15:10|| Front Page Top

#18 Naw, the PDO and its sibling the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation (AMO) are just facts.

One of the false assumptions underlying the claim of man-made global warming is that the climate would be stable if only man wasn't around. What a bunch of bunk. The climate changes. There is no such thing as a geostasis.

In 2,000 years the current interglacial will end and it will be back to ice age. Maybe scientist can bring back the Woolly Mammoth by then.

Posted by Sven the pelter 2015-10-06 15:23|| 2015-10-06 15:23|| Front Page Top

#19 "PETA is down on you just for eating meat."

#14 Rambler, I think PETA is down on you for just eating.

Posted by Barbara Skolaut 2015-10-06 15:30|| 2015-10-06 15:30|| Front Page Top

#20 Rambler, I think PETA is down on you for just eating.

Beans and rice. I suppose for variety you can have rice and beans....

Posted by Sven the pelter 2015-10-06 15:34|| 2015-10-06 15:34|| Front Page Top

#21 I once had a friend who's wife was a vegetarian. Having the social graces of a bear, I proceeded to explain my belief in the philosophy of the social contract and therefore that eating meat was much more virtuous then eating vegetables.
She looked puzzled so I explained that the prohibition against murdering each other was due to a social contract. You respect my life and therefore I respect yours. (BTW, this is the justification for capital punishment). Every animal has killed something else in order to stay alive therefore my steak has forfeited its right to protection under the social contract.

Vegetables on the other hand take CO2 from the air and water and minerals from the earth and mix it with sunlight to live. They are the most virtuous creatures on earth and therefore we have to right to eat them.

My friend pulled me aside and asked me to stop pulling her leg or soon she wouldn't eat anything at all.

Posted by Sven the pelter 2015-10-06 15:48|| 2015-10-06 15:48|| Front Page Top

#22 "we have to right to eat them" --> "we have no right to eat them"

Posted by Sven the pelter 2015-10-06 15:51|| 2015-10-06 15:51|| Front Page Top

#23 Some may consider it a bit extreme, but I follow the teachings of Brother Lesego Daniel.

Posted by Besoeker 2015-10-06 15:56|| 2015-10-06 15:56|| Front Page Top

#24 Violates my rule; Never eat where cows go poo.

Posted by Sven the pelter 2015-10-06 16:15|| 2015-10-06 16:15|| Front Page Top

#25 A seed, shit, disaster;
How came this to pass?
The herd pooed the pasture.
Sigh. "Keep off the Grass."

Posted by Austin Leslie 2015-10-06 17:14|| 2015-10-06 17:14|| Front Page Top

#26 :-)

Posted by Sven the pelter 2015-10-06 17:30|| 2015-10-06 17:30|| Front Page Top

#27 I like it when my food at one time had a face.....

Posted by USN, Ret. 2015-10-06 18:22|| 2015-10-06 18:22|| Front Page Top

#28

Me too. Smiley Face Pancakes Recipe

Posted by Sven the pelter 2015-10-06 20:13|| 2015-10-06 20:13|| Front Page Top

#29 Um oyster faces are the best.

Posted by Shipman 2015-10-06 20:16|| 2015-10-06 20:16|| Front Page Top

#30 I would be curious to see the deformity rate among babies born to women who remained vegetarian throughout pregnancy.

Posted by swksvolFF 2015-10-06 20:17|| 2015-10-06 20:17|| Front Page Top

#31 You know Shipman, I think that I am going to take my wife out to eat Oysters at the local raw bar. :-)

Posted by Sven the pelter 2015-10-06 20:43|| 2015-10-06 20:43|| Front Page Top

#32 oyster faces

"The dark and the mud and the moisture
So pamper the face of an oyster --
All peaches-and-creamy! --
That if you could see me,
You'd rush to crack open my cloister!"

Posted by Zenobia Floger6220 2015-10-06 21:03|| 2015-10-06 21:03|| Front Page Top

#33 The oyster was full of himself:
"I've made it -- nice house, health, and wealth!
You ladies who relish
This bachelor shellfish,
I won't last for long on the shelf."

Posted by Zenobia Floger6220 2015-10-06 21:19|| 2015-10-06 21:19|| Front Page Top

#34 Dang ZF.
From someone who had to annunciate Exhume for a fellow, I do appreciate.

Posted by swksvolFF 2015-10-06 22:12|| 2015-10-06 22:12|| Front Page Top

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