MicroWaveAug 18, 2025

Beef prices soar to all-time high

https://lemmy.world/post/34629231

Beef prices soar to all-time high - Lemmy.World

Beef prices surged to an all-time high in July as the market grappled with consistently strong demand and long-term issues in domestic production. According to the latest consumer price index, which the Bureau of Labor Statistics published on Tuesday, the beef and veal index rose by 2.5% in July, compared to 0.2% for the broader food category. This capped an 11.3% increase over the past 12 months. Meanwhile, the price of ground beef and uncooked beef steaks has risen by 11.5% and 12.4%, respectively, both now at record levels.

Show threadFurryMemesAccountAug 18, 2025
Good. It’s prolly the most polluting food we make (at least ad far as meats go)
Show threadcommieAug 18, 2025
all of agriculture is about 1/5 of our ghge, and we need to eat. let’s shut down the war machines before we start telling poor people they need to change their lifestyles
Show threadTipsyMcGeeAug 18, 2025

“We need to eat” rhymes poorly with climate wrecking animal farming, which not only speeds up harvest devastating warming and flooding – it also consumes a lot of food and uses enormous amounts of farmable land.

Poor people are not in any way immune to the apocalypse and will have to change their lifestyles one way or the other.

You’re championing dying with a belly full of cheeseburgers over tofu and a shot at long term survival. It’s not progressive.

Show threadthedruid

Not to be a dick, but progressive or not doesn’t matter, what matters us effective.

We need two solutions. Short and long term

Short term survival and the long term bounty.

Aug 18, 2025 at 3:19pmWeb
Show threadTipsyMcGeeAug 18, 2025

Nothing dickish about making your point, that’s what we’re here for.

I agree that we need effective measures, in terms of combatting climate change there are few things that are more efficient than eliminating animal agriculture. For there to even be a long term, at all, drastic measures are needed in the short term.

But at this point, it feels like LARPing to bother thinking about, climate change. Not a lot of room for the issue in the flooded zone.

Show threadthedruidAug 18, 2025
Yeah. We do have a mountain sized orange pimple to deal with first. Or at least living through the orwelian nightmare he heralds
Show threadTipsyMcGeeAug 18, 2025
Yep, there is that, no way around it
Show threadcommieAug 18, 2025

there are few things that are more efficient than eliminating animal agriculture

I doubt it