The meat has never been more expensive, due to supply shortages, but there's a big squeeze on profits.

With US beef prices soaring to record highs, you might think that South Dakota cattle rancher Eric Gropper would be celebrating.

Yet while the cost of the meat in US supermarkets is now 12% higher than it was a year ago, a rise more than three times the rate of general inflation, Gropper says that he and all the other beef farmers aren’t making any more profit than usual.

  • FirstCircle@lemmy.mlEnglish
    5·
    2 days ago

    I fact checked myself and it says british soliders were provided with 6oz of meat a day

    Maybe, but surely not all beef.

    • taj@lemmy.world
      1·
      24 hours ago

      Yes. Eating a variety of meat - goat, lamb, pork, chicken, horse, buffalo, etc can be hugely beneficial.

      • FirstCircle@lemmy.mlEnglish
        11·
        2 days ago

        Tinned fish …ugh … OTOH people eat sardines. I guess. Somewhere. I suppose those WW1 soldiers didn’t have access to Spam yet. Spam is gross but I would eat that before I’d eat dead fish in a can.