Beef prices hit all-time high in U.S.

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

Okay, that's it. This is where the fun ends. I am not voting for that clown again.

Beef prices hit all-time high in U.S.

By David Pierson and Tiffany Hsu

April 8, 2014, 6:05 p.m.

Come grilling season, expect your sirloin steak to come with a hearty side of sticker shock.

Beef prices have reached all-time highs in the U.S. and aren't expected to come down any time soon.

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-beef-prices-20140406,0,2966247.story#ixzz2yyvaz6Is

[one...two...tree 2,762]

Most likely, our grandchildren's diet will be radically different from ours. Not as a choice, but because there will less choice in the future as many of the foods we now enjoy will become more scarce.

[TBoneTX 45,288]

... says the guy with the username "Porterhouse."

Uh, of course, so says the guy with the username "TBone"...

[Danno 1,228]

Most likely, our grandchildren's diet will be radically different from ours. Not as a choice, but because there will less choice in the future as many of the foods we now enjoy will become more scarce.

This reminds me of the predictions of mass starvation around the world given when I was a kid.

Reality: As food has gotten more pleantiful and cheaper the World Health Organization find obesity a bigger problem around the globe than is hunger, why?

The Doom and Gloomers based their projections on a very limited set of facts with no appreciation for bio advancements.

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

Most likely, our grandchildren's diet will be radically different from ours. Not as a choice, but because there will less choice in the future as many of the foods we now enjoy will become more scarce.

Yes, they will have Stem Cell Flambé.

Stem Cell Flambé: Test-Tube T-Bones on the Horizon Say Researchers

A world which is free of caged chickens, slaughterhouses and avian flu is possible, researchers claim. All that's needed is labaratory-made meat. While test-tube T-bones are still the domain of futurists, scientists have already taken the first important steps.

The frog steaks were sautéed in a garlic and parsley sauce, then garnished with chives. When the feast was finally ready to eat, the artists sat down for dinner at the museum.

Two years ago, at an exhibit in the French city of Nantes titled "L'Art Biotech," Oron Catts, Ionat Zurr and Guy Ben-Ary dined on "tiny polymers stuffed with clawed frog cell à la Davis, flambéed with Calvados." The artists, part of the Australian "Tissue Culture Art Project," called their installation "Disembodied Cuisine." They had mounted tissue cells from frogs onto small biopolymer substrates -- about three centimeters in diameter -- and watched as they grew into small "steaks." The four frogs from which the tissue had been taken looked on from a nearby aquarium.

The purpose of the project was to probe the boundaries between the living and the "semi-living," while at the same time creating "victim-free meat" -- meat that doesn't require the slaughter of a single animal. The comical biotech installation was meant to "disturb," says Catts. But real life could one day be just as disturbing. The vision of frog-friendly frog legs could soon become reality.

And it's not just frog meat that may soon be jumping from Petri dishes onto your plate. Laboratories, some hope, may someday replace slaughterhouses and even now, researchers are working feverishly to pull steaks and hamburger out of their pipettes. Their goal is the development of giant bioreactors where butcher shop wares are grown out of cell cultures, potentially forever relegating mass-production chicken farms, veal calf production and pigsties to agriculture museums. One day, say some scientists, meat incubators could become standard kitchen equipment, allowing consumers to grow their own liver pâté and meat balls, turkey sausage and smoked salami.

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

This is the one untold story. Food prices have rocketed since 2008, despite an overall less than historic growth in the economy.

U.S. food prices up 19 percent in 2014; increasing inflation feared

Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/044711_increasing_food_prices_California_drought_subsidized_crops.html

[TBoneTX 45,288]

test-tube T-bones are still the domain of futurists

I, and Mini-Bone, were products of natural births, so apparently the future isn't present yet.

[Operator 1,927]

Monday night I enjoyed a 20 oz sirloin paid for with my corporate credit card that is covered by the money I earn from the sweaty mass of this lands working class.

God bless the United States and no where else!

[one...two...tree 2,762]

This reminds me of the predictions of mass starvation around the world given when I was a kid.

Reality: As food has gotten more pleantiful and cheaper the World Health Organization find obesity a bigger problem around the globe than is hunger, why?

The Doom and Gloomers based their projections on a very limited set of facts with no appreciation for bio advancements.

It's based on solid data. We Americans are able to enjoy McDonald's hamburgers because most of the rest of the world doesn't have as voracious appetite for beef as we do, because there simple isn't enough grazing land and water to sustain a steady supply of cattle for such an appetite. Take away cattle ranchers ability to have their livestock graze on public lands, eliminate the deforestation of Brazilian rainforests and beef would be too expensive for most Americans. We've been enjoying beef on borrowed time and now Climate Change is already wreaking havoc on our water supplies and crops, so enjoy it while it lasts, because the supply is only going to continue to dwindle.

[Danno 1,228]

It's based on solid data. We Americans are able to enjoy McDonald's hamburgers because most of the rest of the world doesn't have as voracious appetite for beef as we do, because there simple isn't enough grazing land and water to sustain a steady supply of cattle for such an appetite. Take away cattle ranchers ability to have their livestock graze on public lands, eliminate the deforestation of Brazilian rainforests and beef would be too expensive for most Americans. We've been enjoying beef on borrowed time and now Climate Change is already wreaking havoc on our water supplies and crops, so enjoy it while it lasts, because the supply is only going to continue to dwindle.

It's always doom and Gloom with you folks.

Mmm Good!

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

Beef is going up largely do to feed costs, because ethanol.

[one...two...tree 2,762]

It's always doom and Gloom with you folks.

Maybe it makes you feel better to trivialize real science and solid data on the environment and sustainability, but burying your head in the sand doesn't change reality. Can we have sustainable livestock as a food source? Yes. But the issue is over how to do that and pretending that sustainability is never necessary because earth is just too massive for you to fathom that our resources are finite is ignorant and childish.

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

In the US, 40% of corn is sold for ethanol production.

[Danno 1,228]

Maybe it makes you feel better to trivialize real science and solid data on the environment and sustainability, but burying your head in the sand doesn't change reality. Can we have sustainable livestock as a food source? Yes. But the issue is over how to do that and pretending that sustainability is never necessary because earth is just too massive for you to fathom that our resources are finite is ignorant and childish.

Make up your mind.

I already mentioned the conclusions that science predicted not long ago, not only were they wrong they were unbelievably wrong in that Obesity is now a bigger health problem.... though it was starvation that was predicted (by science).

[Peikko 1,575]

Make up your mind.

I already mentioned the conclusions that science predicted not long ago, not only were they wrong they were unbelievably wrong in that Obesity is now a bigger health problem.... though it was starvation that was predicted (by science).

Just a suggestion, but you could try to imagine that both things are perfectly possible at one and the same time. You might find this hard to believe, but in the US there are some children who do not get enough to eat and there are some children who are obese. The fact that there is one does not automatically mean that there can't be the other, do you see?