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A Demographic Time Bomb Is About to Hit the Beef Industry (www.wired.com)
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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Yeah. I was confused. Here in Europe, we have absolutely huge subsidies. Where I live, beef is still significantly more expensive than chicken. Mindblowing that it's often the cheapest meat in (I assume) the US. I assume also due to even worse conditions.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Or higher subsidies.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Worse conditions AND more subsidies most likely.

Although that seems absurd, given how large EU agricultural subsidies are.

[–] Argurotoxus 2 points 1 year ago

Beef is absolutely more expensive than chicken and pork in the states. By a wide margin. Not sure if OP misspoke or meant cheapest option to raise not purchase or what, but beef is not the cheap option in stores.