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.

  • Quatlicopatlix@feddit.org
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    22 hours ago

    Depends on what you consider torture, the fact that most large scale chicken farms have to use antibiotics premtivly because the livestock would get sick from the conditionss they live in is a good giveaway. Also the amount of space per animal is so abysmal that calling that torture isnt wrong.