Rising Meat Prices -- What you need to know
Are meat prices really about to go down? Or are they still going UP?
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After a huge rise in meat prices over the last few years, there are some saying we are about to see meat prices go down again.
As of January 2024, mainstream media outlets (at the behest of central banks and conventional ag) want us to look forward to a price drop in chicken … in a few years.
Processing the vast amounts of soybeans needed to make the plant-based jet fuel and diesel required to lower US emissions will also create mountains of co-product soymeal, widely used in animal feed. The less expensive it is for meatpackers to feed their animals, the more meat they’ll produce, ultimately trickling down to lower prices at the grocery store.
“Meal is going to be priced to disappear and go away…As a result, “protein in all forms will get a little less expensive.” (From Yahoo Finance)
In other words:
Don’t worry about your meat prices, or for that matter, the quality of your meat. The conventional system has all the answers. Just shuddup and fall inline.
And I say….I don’t believe in this system for one second.
The claim here is that these “biofuels” are going to help lower the price of meat.
...Because the cheap byproduct of biofuels is what they feed the chickens.
Imagine a processing system where soybeans (heavily sprayed and grown in demolished soils) go in one end, and the outputs are 1. “Biofuels” for jets and diesel and 2. “Soymeal” that gets pelletted and fed to the animals that we then eat.
And then the claim that this is somehow “greener” than small-scale organic farming.
And healthier.
And cheaper.
Anyone else get serious heebie-jeebies from this?
In this twisted narrative, who is subsidizing who?
Is our “green plant-based fuel” subsidizing our cancer-causing, glyphosate coated food? Or is our chemically grown, heavily processed food subsidizing our plant based fuel?
Using the waste product from making “green jet fuel” to feed the chickens that will then go into your children’s school lunches and calling that healthy and sustainable?
If this isn’t gaslighting, I’m not sure what is.
Sounds like that train is choo-chooing right off the cliff.
Just a few decades ago, many Americans had chickens in their backyards, giving them eggs, and the occasional Sunday fryer.
The chickens ate the ticks and other bugs in the yard that we find undesirable (without the use of toxic chemicals).
The backyard poultry devoured table scraps, thus reducing food waste in our landfills.
Green grasses provided nutrients they needed for healthy, delicious eggs and meat.
As the chickens ate the grass, they returned nitrogen to the soil in the form of their manure. Thus stimulating the soil to store more carbon.
This system provided families with fresh protein in their literal backyards for the cost of a bit of grain and the energy of taking care of animals daily.
Anyone with an ounce of observational ability or common sense knows immediately that a closed-loop cycle, with a short food supply chain simply makes sense.
Today, zoning laws, HOAs, and general social mindset keep people from embracing a closed-loop, short food supply chain like that.
Backwards laws and backwards culture.
But mindsets can change.
Priorities shift as we begin to recognize that we are paying higher and higher prices for food that we can actually produce on a household or community level for little to no input costs.
It’s hard to take risks. It’s hard to BE the change agent in your community or neighborhood.
But you know what?