After beef prices hit another all-time high last week — ground beef at $6.89 a pound, an 83% climb since 2017 — President Trump has announced a plan to import 300,000 metric tons of ground beef from overseas, tariff-free for the next 90 days, to be brought into the market at a 25% discount below market price.
“We have a commitment that this beef will be sold at 25% below current market prices.” — President Donald Trump
It’s estimated that 12% of the population eats around half of the supply. I’m happy to be part of this dietary elite.
In the era of 5th Generation warfare, everything is the battlefield. The schools, the media, healthcare, and you absolutely better believe the food supply.
With greater attention being shown to the declining quality of our cuisine, RFK Jr.’s MAHA push, and Tucker Carlson openly referring to it as “goy-slop”, the movement has gone mainstream.
One of the biggest issues is the loss of small cattle ranchers. We’ve been losing over 21,000 independent cattle producers a year — call it 58 a day — and more than half of every beef operation that existed in 1980 is already gone.
Rep. Massie has been reminding everyone about his PRIME Act, which would let small producers use a local custom slaughterhouse and sell in-state. It would provide some relief but doesn’t go nearly far enough to course correct the cliff we’re heading towards. It also doesn’t touch labeling. We killed mandatory country of origin labels in 2015 because Canada and Mexico complained to the WTO.
The nation’s cattle supply is at its lowest point since 1951. 86.2 million head. The beef cow herd hasn’t been this small since 1961.
I understand President Trump is looking for short term relief heading into the midterms, but the need for comprehensive reform is a critical issue that without exaggeration has national security implications. More than a third of 17-to-24 year olds are ineligible to serve at least in part because of obesity, and 11% are disqualified on weight alone.
If the government subsidized grassfed beef the way they do corn we’d quite literally be far better off. And in many ways our entire food supply is already subsidized in a negative way.
There’s been no discussion about how much EBT raises the price of groceries for the rest of Americans.
The Battle of the Beef ties into the climate agenda and the WEF Great Reset. They’ve spent decades telling you how bad red meat is for your health, and how terrible cows are for the environment.
The fact that they’re so desperate to stop us from eating it tells me it’s probably the fountain of youth.
Remember Beyond Beef? And Impossible? At least we can claim victory over the collapsed value of those companies. And the closure of Kevin Hart’s Vegan restaurant chain.
The “consensus” on cholesterol is even being questioned now, with citizen-funded imaging studies out of Cholesterol Code turning up lean, high-LDL subjects with no detectable plaque. How far does the deception really go?
“I take a vitamin every day. It’s called a steak.” — Jim Harbaugh
Inflation, foreign investment, the big four meat processors and regulation have all led us to this point. Tyson, Cargill, JBS and National Beef handle roughly 85% of the beef processed in this country, and two of the four are Brazilian owned. A country in decline struggles to feed its people, as does one under attack.
Generational debates are happening online about how much one should spend on lunch, and while frugality is always wise, being forced to eat literal slop because our monetary policy and agricultural industry are completely out of whack is nothing to be proud of.
I’m reminded of William Wallace in Braveheart, “squabbling for the scraps from Longshanks’ table.”
We were not founded to be a nation of subjugated fools, encouraging one another to cook their hamburger helper with beans instead of ground beef.
Europe has authorized cricket powder in bread, pasta, and pizza. NSF money is funding labs trying to engineer lettuce into mRNA delivery vehicles. And our own herd is being eaten alive from the inside by New World screwworm, a flesh-eating parasite we wiped out in the 1960s and then let walk right back up through Central America into Texas. That’s what closed the Mexican border to cattle for a year and pulled 795,000 head out of the supply. They’re all tied together with a common thread, and one that needs to be addressed.
Remember, you are what you eat.