(November 3, 2015 at 7:45 pm)Clueless Morgan Wrote:(November 3, 2015 at 7:42 pm)Skeletor Wrote: That may well be - at least in part - because the stuff is getting outlandishly expensive. If I were feeding a family on a tight budget, beef would certainly not be what's for dinner, you know?
I've heard the arrow of causation goes the other way - that the price of beef has gone up because production has gone down.
Could be. It's also inexorably tied to the cost of transportation.