If only you had stopped eating meat
Burgers Bending Your Budget? Blame It On Climate Change
Over the last year or so, you may have felt the sting of higher prices as you ordered your favorite burgers at your local restaurant or when you’ve been stocking up at the grocery store. You’re not imagining it: burgers and other red meats cost more today than in years past. The reason why is part of an interlocking network of environmental factors that have prompted a financial turnabout for the agriculture industry.
To get a fuller picture as to why burgers cost more today than ever, we need to take a deep dive into climate change, industrial agriculture, and economic strategies. Here’s a primer to help out.
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What does all this mean for you and your Cheeseburgers in Paradise? A warming planet with intensifying extreme weather is affecting the price of your favorite red meats. Unprecedented conditions are set to become increasingly common across the world, say the authors of a 2025 study. They outline how “new records for extreme conditions will continue to be set, further from those to which agricultural production and economic systems are currently adapted.”
What’s the projection for drought in future years? US climate projections suggest drought conditions may become more frequent and intense. That means the cost of beef in your grocery or neighborhood restaurant will likely continue to rise. Climate change is making catastrophic, multiyear “megadroughts” much worse in the US and around the world.
Good lord, it’s always doom with these people. Did they forget what happened during COVID, with all the inflation, much of which was caused by Democrat policies?
Are rising beef prices new in 2025? Since 2020, studies have shown that climate change is driving up the costs of food, insurance, and other basic goods. Climate impacts on economic productivity indicate that climate change may increasingly threaten price stability. The costs to buy burgers, as a result, isn’t going to fall at least for the next few years.
Yes, they did forget. Or, is this just gaslighting? Cultlighting? These people are dipshits.
Yesterday, it was your ownership of dogs that was killing Mother Gaia. This morning we’re getting
global warmingclimate change ’cause you eat red meat.Robert Stacy McCain has a great series on the Radical Vegan Transgender Death Cult™. You need to eat red mean, and lots of it, or you’ll wind up killing a Border Patrol officer and facing the death penalty.
That’s the insidious part of the Bidenflation our good friends on the left defended: inflation can be slowed, but it’s extremely rare for prices to start coming back down. The inflated prices are stuck into the economy.
Inflation impacts everything, and as prices rise, wages do as well, though frequently lagging behind prices, having made people poorer before their wages (sort of) catch up. Savings get used up, and savings accounts normally have interest rates lower than the inflation rate, which puts more people in the living paycheck-to-paycheck mode.
Add to that the Federal Reserve’s target of 2% inflation. That sounds minimal, but even with just 2% inflation, that inflation accrues month-to-month, while workers’ raises tend to be year-to-year. You may be grateful for that 2% boost in your salary come January the oneth, but you’ve been paying that gradual 2% inflation rate every time you went to Kroger throughout the previous year.
Hamburger is over $6 a pound now.
Mssrs trump and Dana want to rename the San Andreas Fault as Biden’s Fault. They will explain that Biden caused the 2020 pandemic and supply chain issues. Just the thought of Biden being inagurated on Jan 20 2021 buggered the global economies! Trump was the savior with his Covid vaccine plan, WARP Speed!
So some prices have somehow defied Bidenflation!
Economics can be tricky for sure. Mr Dana accuses businesses of maintaining inflated prices even after their costs have dropped! He claims their prices charged went up for legit reasons (e.g., higher wholesale costs, higher transportation costs, higher tariffs etc) but when these pressures were reduced, businesses kept their prices high to make more profit! Did Kroger collude with Walmart, Publix, Safeway and Costco?? You would think one would drop prices to lure more customers.
Physics joke from a former colleague —
Why does steak provide more energy than hamburger? Because hamburger is in the ground state.
Yes, the Fed is charged with balancing inflation and employment. They target 2% inflation per year. They try to do this by controlling interest rates and the money supply.
The main reason ranchers have had to downsize their heads, the ranchers day, is the decades long drought. The land cannot continue to support the size of former herds ranchers are having to cut back the size of their herds
Trump promised to cut grocery prices in half “On Day One” Trumpets continue to believe in everything he says.
Soy bean prices have fallen from $1500 under Biden to $1000. Corn exports ste being consistently refused at foreign ports TACO Trump just postponed (again for the 3rd time) his 50% China tariffs. In Alaska Putin walked all over Trump. Trump got nothing, Putin got a photo op showing that he was not isolated by other countries for invading a country whose borders the USA had pledged to protect.