US Meat Supply

[PabloNole]

 

[jimneffer]

Our farmers are pissed. What happened to America First?

https://www.ncba.org/news-media/news/details/50285/ncba-statement-on-president-trumps-truth-social-post

well...this is an easy fix. Trump will just do what he does every time these consequences arise for a group considers an ally

GIVE THEM GIVT MONEY!

 

[Knickslions69]

I’m sure he’s doing this to help his favorite restaurant McDonalds. I bet he made a deal with them to get cheaper beef and in return they change their name to McTrumps

 

[TigerGrowls]

Trump inherited the smallest beef-cow herd since 1961. You cannot rebuild 30 million breeding animals in six months. You keep ranchers profitable, open grazing land, protect them from drought and losses, expand American processing, encourage them to retain heifers, all of which the Trump USDA is doing —and while those cows reproduce, you temporarily supplement hamburger supply. What exactly is the alternative? Tell Americans to pay $9 a pound for hamburger for three years while we wait for calves to grow up?

 

[tigres88]

It went from "the Somali's are eating the dogs and the cats" to "Americans will eat the horses and like it!" in 2 short years.

Making America great!

 

[PabloNole]

All the day 1 talk to “give us time.”

 

[Billanole.]

American beef producers are only doing this for one reason, and one reason only.

They want a subsidy payment from the USDA.
In an election year, decent chance they get it. Republican candidates in the Midwest and Texas will lobby the WH for this.
Guaranfvckingteed!

 

[fskillet]

Sorry MAGA. If Biden got blame for egg shortages Trump is getting the beef shortage. Them’s the rules.

 

[Urohawk]

Sounds like you know plenty about meat phagg.

I guess they didn't transfer.....

 

[Thefunksouljon]

I'm not sure what you'd want trump or any other potential president to do about high beef prices. There simply are not enough US bred cattle to slaughter. It's not Trump's fault and it wasn't biden's either. It will likely take a couple more years to get herds back to normal levels.

And, while you might be right, I'm not certain we can blame this drought on climate change. We've had droughts long before the era of global warming and/or climate change...some go back as far as the 1800's and everyone should have learned about the 1930's dust bowl.

Sometimes, things happen and there's nobody to blame.

Well, I guess as a free market capitalist I would say it's a crappy set of events that lead us to this issue but govt intervention by importing meat and artificially lowering the price of beef doesn't benefit our beef production and hurts their margins which they need to help to overcome the recent lower herds. See they needed that extra money to rebuild, but since the price is going to be artificially lower due to his dumba$$ promises about affordability and fixing price issues he doesn't understand why the market is the way it is, he is being an interventionist for votes and not helping the industry.

I was more posting to OP because he is trying to make this a political issue which the reasons for the shortage are NOT originally political but the solutions (which are long term) require science and not market manipulation. The consumers are not in grave danger, we have numerous alternatives.

According to science, one of the major reasons IS climate change (again, who is firing them to have an educated discussion on this topic?). Now you throw on top of that the govt allowing the industry to consolidate and not have processing options, which IS a protection that the govt is charged with... oh, what was the name of the behavior the govt was expected to protect consumers from? So yeah, he has a number of areas here where he is failing to do what he should, and tinkering where he doesn't understand the full impacts. But I blame trump and not republicans as a whole, however, that might be too generous.

Other times, it is pretty easy to see where some blame lies.

 

[Billanole.]

Well, I guess as a free market capitalist I would say it's a crappy set of events that lead us to this issue but govt intervention by importing meat and artificially lowering the price of beef doesn't benefit our beef production and hurts their margins to overcome the recent lower herds. See they needed that extra money to rebuild, but since the price is going to be artificially lower due to his dumba$$ promises about affordability and fixing price issues he doesn't understand why the market is the way it is, he is being an interventionist for votes.

I was more posting to OP because he is trying to make this a political issue which the reasons for the shortage are NOT originally political but the solutions (which are long term) require science and not market manipulation. The consumers are not in grave danger, we have numerous alternatives.

According to science, one of the major reasons IS climate change (again, who is firing them?). Now you throw on top of that the govt allowing the industry to consolidate and not have processing options, which IS a protection that the govt is charged with... oh, what was the name of the behavior the govt was expected to protect consumers from? So yeah, he has a number of areas here where he is failing to do what he should, and tinkering where he doesn't understand the full impacts. But I blame trump and not republicans as a whole, however, that might be too generous.

Bam. Zounds. POW.
Thanks for a great post.

 

[Thefunksouljon]

Bam. Zounds. POW.
Thanks for a great post.