Here we go into another week in the twilight zone. The first article is about how Kentucky officials want the Department of Justice to investigate the meatpacking industry. When you first start reading this article, notice the verbiage they are using “the farmers are complaining”. It’s being phrased as if to say “How dare the farmers to want fair market price for their goods” and condescend the farmers. Treating the farmers like greedy little kids that want more of the pie than they earned. Farmers are right to complain. The price for meat at the store is going up and I will address this in another article. Yet the market where they sell their livestock is going down. So yes, they are being screwed along with the truckers who haul the livestock. 

From March first to May first the grocery cost went up 1.6%. It is insane to think of what the cost will be by the end of the year. If you look at history when there is a pandemic there is a rise in the cost of food. The last time this level of insane rising was in 1974. There was inflation. Later in that decade, there was an embargo on oil from Iran. Overall there was a sweet and salty lining to this dark cloud. Sweets and snacks went down in price. Yeah! The stuff that isn’t that great for us is cheaper than the stuff that is. What else is new? 

The last article is on misleading labels:

1. Organic – this means there is a list of herbicides and pesticides which can’t be used during the growing and harvesting process. As for livestock, it just means they must be given organic feed for most of their diet. 
2. Grass-Fed – this just means the livestock ate grass for the majority of their lives. Not all of their lives.
3.  Product of the USA – talk about a scam, man is this the biggest scam out there next to the Organic USDA Certified. Certified BS! Truth is the livestock are raised somewhere else and sent here then killed and butchered.   

References:

Kentucky officials want Department of Justice to investigate meatpacking industry

https://www.courier-journal.com/story/news/local/2020/05/17/meatpacking-industry-kentucky-officals-call-for-investigation/5208747002/

The 3 Most Misleading Labels On Meat! https://cunninghampasturedmeats.com/blog/the-3-most-misleading-labels-on-meat

Why are grocery prices rising? Here’s what shoppers need to know

https://www.today.com/food/why-are-grocery-prices-rising-t181700