Does anyone think that the price might have something to do with it?
Yes. Prices go up so demand falls, as demand falls the amount of beef produced falls, which makes prices go up even more. Hopefully when the price rises enough farmers will take advantage and increase production, but the floor price has to be high enough for it to get produced, or it won’t get produced.
Price is the reason. We buy directly from the beef producer. Going through Costco anything better than ground or sirloin is out of reach.
Or perhaps it’s the other way around. Not sure what sort of tax implications there are these days for “basic herd”. I suspect the feds are behind it.
Honestly, I’m more into chicken and pork nowadays. I do enjoy the occasional hamburger, and there is a nice Chinese place I like that does a couple of beef dishes I like.
I love beef, the only reason I eat other meats is because I can’t afford to eat steaks or roast beef every day.
The real four food groups are:
Beef
Pork
Chicken
Potatoes
Washed down with beer.
“Chinese place I like that does a couple of beef dishes I like.”
Make sure it’s actually beef before you lick the dish and stick it in the dishwasher. 🙂
Hindus don’t eat beef, and they’re rapidly becoming a big chunk of the population.
Despite popular white liberal belief, Hindus have an insatiable preference for chicken. I guess mean ole Uncle Prajeet won’t have to worry about coming back as a rooster.
One might also comment on the decline of cooking skills in the female population. Or how grocery stores sell good beef and crappy beef for the same price. Or the paranoia over the so called mad cow disease
Perhaps, men could think about learning cooking skills (many are now, graduating from the BBQ to the kitchen). Fortunately, my husband could cook a great meal
Women have been told that a salad is a meal by diet freaks, and Canada’s food rules a few years ago recommended 7 carbohydrates per day! I would weigh 200 lbs vs 120. Today, the rules include foods that are not especially tasty. No meat is recommended for kids – just soy products, tofu and lentils.
Learn to cook you idiot.
The smaller size of the Canadian beef herd could be because of imports?
See lots of South American beef in the store coolers and freezers.
As my friends and I age, we are only able to eat about half of what we were able to even 20 years ago (I am now 72). I think this is a combination of factors – age, demographics, cost of food. I also remember when I was growing up in the 1950’s and early 1960’s, the only beef we ate regularly was beef cubes in stew. Mostly had fish, chicken or yuck! Liver and onions and for extra good measure turnips.
“My brother from another mother” remembers his mother making tripe on a weekly basis. Thank goodness his father started earning more money working the line at GM and tripe was GONE! He has NEVER had tripe since about 1963 and does not miss it.
Yes, a striploin that used to be too little for a meal is now a two meal proposition. I don’t mind, it just means I don’t have to plan two suppers in a row.
Every time I see the price of beef in the stores I say a prayer of thanks to my Old Man for showing me how to hunt.
I have made good relationships with local beef farmers and buy direct, saving 25-30%… so it’s beef at least every other day and leftovers for breakfast, with eggs. Sure, there’s a bit of a premium but the quality offsets that cost.
I buy it on sale and freeze it.
I bought an ungraded Mexican prime rib roast the other day.
I don’t know if the steer knew it was Mexican.
“…don’t know if the steer knew it was Mexican.”
Was it wrapped with a cartel logo and taste a little like pork?
A package of 3 ribeye steaks at my local COSTCO is $95 !!! THAT is why my beef consumption has shrunk. Period. It’s too damned expensive.
And doesn’t help that that package is mechanically tenderized….
I buy the large cuts and then cut it into steaks myself. Much cheaper that way.
Busy families with both parents working to put a roof over the kitchen and driving kids to activities cuts down on time available to cook decent meals.
A lot of kids are raised on granola bars, smoothies with protein powder, chicken strips with fries, fast foods, hot dogs and pasta, sweet snacks etc. Knife and forks skills are weak.
What happens to those 3 ribeyes for $100 when nobody buys them?
Do they get sold to a restaurant at half that amount, or ground into ground beef and sold at the new crazy price of 6 or 7 bucks a pound?
They really destroyed the whole world back in 2020 didn’t they?
It’s because of the price ya dummy.
Eating less beef. So that is why Canadian’s brains and intellect are shrinking.
Does anyone think that the price might have something to do with it?
Yes. Prices go up so demand falls, as demand falls the amount of beef produced falls, which makes prices go up even more. Hopefully when the price rises enough farmers will take advantage and increase production, but the floor price has to be high enough for it to get produced, or it won’t get produced.
Price is the reason. We buy directly from the beef producer. Going through Costco anything better than ground or sirloin is out of reach.
Or perhaps it’s the other way around. Not sure what sort of tax implications there are these days for “basic herd”. I suspect the feds are behind it.
Honestly, I’m more into chicken and pork nowadays. I do enjoy the occasional hamburger, and there is a nice Chinese place I like that does a couple of beef dishes I like.
I love beef, the only reason I eat other meats is because I can’t afford to eat steaks or roast beef every day.
The real four food groups are:
Beef
Pork
Chicken
Potatoes
Washed down with beer.
“Chinese place I like that does a couple of beef dishes I like.”
Make sure it’s actually beef before you lick the dish and stick it in the dishwasher. 🙂
Hindus don’t eat beef, and they’re rapidly becoming a big chunk of the population.
Despite popular white liberal belief, Hindus have an insatiable preference for chicken. I guess mean ole Uncle Prajeet won’t have to worry about coming back as a rooster.
One might also comment on the decline of cooking skills in the female population. Or how grocery stores sell good beef and crappy beef for the same price. Or the paranoia over the so called mad cow disease
Perhaps, men could think about learning cooking skills (many are now, graduating from the BBQ to the kitchen). Fortunately, my husband could cook a great meal
Women have been told that a salad is a meal by diet freaks, and Canada’s food rules a few years ago recommended 7 carbohydrates per day! I would weigh 200 lbs vs 120. Today, the rules include foods that are not especially tasty. No meat is recommended for kids – just soy products, tofu and lentils.
Learn to cook you idiot.
The smaller size of the Canadian beef herd could be because of imports?
See lots of South American beef in the store coolers and freezers.
As my friends and I age, we are only able to eat about half of what we were able to even 20 years ago (I am now 72). I think this is a combination of factors – age, demographics, cost of food. I also remember when I was growing up in the 1950’s and early 1960’s, the only beef we ate regularly was beef cubes in stew. Mostly had fish, chicken or yuck! Liver and onions and for extra good measure turnips.
“My brother from another mother” remembers his mother making tripe on a weekly basis. Thank goodness his father started earning more money working the line at GM and tripe was GONE! He has NEVER had tripe since about 1963 and does not miss it.
Yes, a striploin that used to be too little for a meal is now a two meal proposition. I don’t mind, it just means I don’t have to plan two suppers in a row.
Every time I see the price of beef in the stores I say a prayer of thanks to my Old Man for showing me how to hunt.
I have made good relationships with local beef farmers and buy direct, saving 25-30%… so it’s beef at least every other day and leftovers for breakfast, with eggs. Sure, there’s a bit of a premium but the quality offsets that cost.
I buy it on sale and freeze it.
I bought an ungraded Mexican prime rib roast the other day.
I don’t know if the steer knew it was Mexican.
“…don’t know if the steer knew it was Mexican.”
Was it wrapped with a cartel logo and taste a little like pork?
A package of 3 ribeye steaks at my local COSTCO is $95 !!! THAT is why my beef consumption has shrunk. Period. It’s too damned expensive.
And doesn’t help that that package is mechanically tenderized….
I buy the large cuts and then cut it into steaks myself. Much cheaper that way.
Busy families with both parents working to put a roof over the kitchen and driving kids to activities cuts down on time available to cook decent meals.
A lot of kids are raised on granola bars, smoothies with protein powder, chicken strips with fries, fast foods, hot dogs and pasta, sweet snacks etc. Knife and forks skills are weak.
What happens to those 3 ribeyes for $100 when nobody buys them?
Do they get sold to a restaurant at half that amount, or ground into ground beef and sold at the new crazy price of 6 or 7 bucks a pound?
They really destroyed the whole world back in 2020 didn’t they?
It’s because of the price ya dummy.
Eating less beef. So that is why Canadian’s brains and intellect are shrinking.