Now Is The Time At SDA When We Juxtapose!

There Goes The Narrative We Need A Famine 26 Comments

June, 2025: Beef is becoming a luxury item in Canada – Canadian beef prices have surged due to a shrinking cattle herd, high transportation costs, and potential market collusion

Since January, according to Statistics Canada, beef prices have surged dramatically. Striploin is up 34.2 per cent, top sirloin 33.7 per cent, and rib cuts nearly 12 per cent. Pork rib cuts and chicken breasts have each risen 5.9 per cent, while even meatless burger patties are 6.8 per cent more expensive. Beef has led the way in these increases, and its dominance in the price hikes is striking. What’s particularly concerning is that it’s not just one cut of beef—virtually every option has seen a dramatic jump, putting pressure on Canadian consumers who were already grappling with rising food costs.

February, 2026: Beef will remain a luxury item in Canada

Canadian exporters are now able to ship over-thirty-month (OTM) bone-in beef, and for the first time, pork and pork products. In addition, Indonesia has approved more Canadian facilities, further strengthening Canada’s export capacity to this dynamic market. Enhanced access for beef and beef products has also been achieved through the removal of Indonesia’s residency restrictions on imported cattle. As a result, Canada’s exports to Indonesia are expected to increase significantly, building on the country’s robust market, which in 2024 was valued at $1.1 billion for beef imports and $42 million for pork imports.

Shut up and eat your bugs.

26 Replies to “Now Is The Time At SDA When We Juxtapose!”

  1. I buy beef ONLY when it is on sale. Don’t know about Canada, but in Montana our supermarket here in town has hamburger meat on sale @ $3.98 a pound every 4 or 5 weeks. That sale price has been constant the last 2 years. For the preceding 8 – 10 years it was @ $2.98 a pound at the same store.

    So, let’s say that is $5.45 in Loonies.
    The article only states percentage price increases not prices themselves, so how much do you Canadians pay and have you cut back a lot on buying beef?

    2. Same, only when they slap a sticker just before expiry. An 8 oz. striploin will cost you $25 in Canada.

    3. My wife just came back from the grocery store. $24 for a package of stewing beef. Probably less than 2 lbs.

    4. Lean ground beef is now $10/lb, increases every 3 months.
      No longer a staple, unaffordable for many.

      On sale (which is becoming rare),
      might see $7 Canadian per pound.

      What ones sees more often than a sale is “$2-$5 Off”
      because the Best Before date is that day.

  3. Here is Northern Illinois, we see (80/20) ground chuck floating between $4.99 – $5.49#. Sale prices on (85/15) ground round $3.99 to $4.99# otherwise $6.49#. We also see sales on T-bones ranging from $5.99 to $6.99#. Sale price for boneless chuck roast/pot roast used to be $3.99 but its now $4.99# and up.
    Niece living outside Greensboro, NC reported ground chuck (80/20) at $8.99#. Price has since come down.

  4. I’m seeing a lot more Australian and New Zealand beef at our SuperStore, but my palate isn’t accustomed to its flavour. We used to buy quite a bit of flank steak as it’s quite versatile (beef and broccoli, braciola, marinated and barbecued) but at $24.99 per pound?! I don’t think so. We shop the sales but they are few and far between.

  5. While the people of Democratic Kampuchea were literally atarving to death, the Khmer Rouge were exporting everything that their subjects were able to grow worth eating to Red China, to raise the funds for weapons to wage Pol Pot’s planned genocidal war against the Vietnamese.

    I don’t know where the money from exports of Canadian beef is going. Maybe towards that military hardware Mark Carney is buying in a fruitless attempt to prevent the liberation of Chinada Province by the armed forces of the United States.

  6. At No Frills a package of 8 frozen beef patties is now $19.99. It wasn’t too long ago when that same package was $7.98.

  7. Who needs beef when we have so much wild game ?

    fun fact. in Saskatchewan, despite propaganda to the contrary, no one needs hunter safety to hunt. Just purchase your tags and go hunting during the season of your choice. If you don’t have a PAL, ask one of your friends with a PAL to borrow their firearm and accompany you.

    1. Exactly. The middlemen and the retailers are the only ones making money. The ranchers are getting less than before; especially after adjusting for inflation.
      Which is why I buy direct from the rancher.

  9. My favorite part of the first article was the part where is said it’s not just one cut of beef but all of them. It’s as if all the cuts come from one magical animal.

  10. Well we got all these “new” customers through trade deals or MOU’s. Of course it is because we are no longer going to sell to our best customer. Just wondering , how many cars produced here have these new customers committed to buy? Or batteries from our 50 billion invested in battery plants? Your previous post from SNL and childhood mutilation seems to have been a blueprint. I believe this one is a blueprint from the hunger games. As always “what could go wrong” only applies to the “nobodies” and those considered to be “useless eaters”.

  11. We buy two wholes from the same supplier every year, split with neighbors and family. II think our own half last year prolly cost about 7$ lb after cut/wrap. (we pay by the hanging weight).

    1. Exactly Kate. That is what every person should do. Talk to your farmers, look @ what his stock looks like, what price is he selling it for, gather friends because now days, “most people do not own big freezers”. My neighbor’s right now are selling beef for $5.50-$6.00 per pound butchered & then you haul it away to your choice of butcher shop, they usually charge $1.00 per pound,cut & wrapped. You pay farmer for hanging weight only.

    2. Where I live we are blessed with a very good local grocery store with a very good meat counter. As well we have two rural slaughter /butcher shops. We are treated well. Country people will survive.

  12. Wow. So Trump is causing Canada’s beef prices to spiral upward too? As heard on MSNBC or whatever acronym it’s rebranded itself.

  14. If they are exporting meat, someone, somewhere is paying a better price than we are willing to pay. Or, we have a special price for “just in Canada”.

  15. I was shopping for my 83 year old dad yesterdy. Looking at beef prices, they were absolutely insane. Up to $73 a kg for some cuts. Good grief!

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