Quality of meat is improved by not being raised on feed lots; organically raised food is the best quality.
I’m conservative, but I’m not going to protect big agribusiness. Quite simply, what they call food is cr@p.
Big corporate farms want us to eat whatever garbage they produce.
Why bother grazing beef when you can have it live on feed lots ? Just pump it full of antibiotics so it doesn’t die in that environment, oh, and to get more volume, pump it full of all sorts of other “stuff” to get it bigger faster. Hey, some dude was growing beef-like stuff in a lab. Why not do that ? We can wander around the lab at night, sampling things for snacks. Hey, if we get sick we have ZeroCare !
That is why chef-owned restaurants who serve quality food - look for quality ingredients.
There are reasons why their cooking is better than most people can cook themselves: they start with better ingredients to begin with.
Are their newbie organic people who think that meat is bad for you, they eat bean sprouts and tofu, etc. - yes. There are many nutcases out there. I don’t particularly care about their wackiness, I am happy that there is organic food out there - I see it sometimes now in normal stores because of competition.
What I can’t stand is the increase in food prices overall in the past few years.
Decent beef selling at $20 a pound. Cr@p beef in the supermarket that used to be $4.99 not long ago now selling at $7.99. That’s a 60% increase !!!!
This is due to agribusiness and it’s lobby: let’s export all we can to other countries - and by the way, if foreign buyers demand causes the price to go up - GREAT, we make more profit. Thanks, agribusiness, for helping to destroy America, by increasing retail food prices 10% to 60% in just a few years. Jerks.
When will the stinking rotting so-called elites of America stop being jerks ? They would still make money and everything would be great, if they’d just understand business for real and make a few changes accordingly.
1.) Import raw materials.
2.) Export manufactured goods.
Is that so difficult to understand ?
No, it’s easy. But the elites don’t care about America - they want to do the opposite of that - so third world and communist countries can do those two things and gain wealth.
If you like to spread communism and tyranny, just keep buying from big business and voting for the same Congressmen over and over.
Beg to differ...
Increases in the price of meat are paralleled by increases in all other foods, and not because of agribusiness corporations. The reason is the increased cost of vehicle fuel. Gas has doubled since Bush left office, in fact in the first few months, but never went back down like all the other times. At first, food prices won’t go up right away, because the fuel goes back down. This time, fuel never went back down. Naturally, everything goes up.
And don’t forget that the number of people receiving food stamp assistance has skyrocketed. Food stamps are dollars that the government creates to give to less-well-off people. The money that powers food stamps enters the grocery store, and competes with real money for the same food. Thus, money supply increases, and the value of each dollar decreases. This is called “inflation.” What do you suppose happens to the price of food?