October 05, 2024
Food prices—especially meat and poultry—have skyrocketed in the past four years and could be exacerbated further next year when new EPA rules for meat processors go into effect.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Price Outlook for September reported that beef and veal prices had increased for six months and predicted they would rise 5.2 percent in 2024. Poultry prices also rose by a smaller percentage and are expected to rise more before year’s end.
The report traced the rise to pandemic-related supply chain disruptions and the worst inflation since the 1980s.
Analysts say that next year, meat and poultry prices at the grocery store could still be higher. An Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposal is expected to put some meat processors out of business, resulting in potential job losses and supply chain disruptions.
The EPA announced a proposed rule change governing effluent, or wastewater, limits for meat and poultry processors in January of this year, followed by public comment in the spring.
The agency’s final rule will go into effect in August 2025.
Dozens of states, industry stakeholders, and policy experts have opposed the proposal, fearing it will harm the industry, the food supply, and consumers.
Tim adds:
How is "supply chain disruption" the cause of this four years after the end of the pandemic? I call BS on that. And we are INCREASING our exports of broiler meat, so why are prices rising?
" U.S. broiler meat exports 2014-2024 From 2014 to 2022, the export of broiler meat from the United States was at its highest volume in 2020, when approximately 3.38 million metric tons of broiler meat were exported. The U.S. is expected to export about 3.21 million metric tons in 2024."
This has nothing to do with supply chain disruptions if you ask me and everything to do with general inflation causeed by bad monetary policy coupled with increasingly draconic regulations designed to strangle the industry and drive prices up (and thus force Americans to seek non-meat alternatives or eat bugs.) It's U.N. Agenda 21/30 being put into practice by the elites, who have never gotten over their Malthusian views from the seventies and Paul Ehrlicht and the Club of Rome idiotcy.
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