# Beef prices hit all-time high in U.S. Who do you blame? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [April 9, 2014, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beef-prices-hit-all-time-high-in-u-s-who-do-you-blame/685696 "2014-04-09T04:12:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Little\_Pig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c57346/32.png) [@Little\_Pig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Pig)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2014, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beef-prices-hit-all-time-high-in-u-s-who-do-you-blame/685696/1 "2014-04-09T04:12:06Z")
[Record beef prices](http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/breaking/la-fi-beef-prices-20140406,0,7598744.story) ---
**Author:** ![levdrakon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@levdrakon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/levdrakon)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2014, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beef-prices-hit-all-time-high-in-u-s-who-do-you-blame/685696/2 "2014-04-09T04:29:13Z")
The cattle farmers of course. Their cows, or lack thereof. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Second\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bbe5ce/32.png) [@The\_Second\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Second_Stone)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2014, 5:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beef-prices-hit-all-time-high-in-u-s-who-do-you-blame/685696/3 "2014-04-09T05:17:08Z")
Drought? Beef is very water intensive and we have very little water in California right now and that might be rippling across this vast, beautiful nation. ---
**Author:** ![micadw](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c2a13f/32.png) [@micadw](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/micadw)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2014, 5:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beef-prices-hit-all-time-high-in-u-s-who-do-you-blame/685696/4 "2014-04-09T05:25:03Z")
We have many cattle farms in the area. Our problem has been ransid hay. Farmers are losing twenty plus head a month. ---
**Author:** ![Omar\_Little](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omar_little/32/269_2.png) [@Omar\_Little](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omar_Little)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2014, 6:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beef-prices-hit-all-time-high-in-u-s-who-do-you-blame/685696/5 "2014-04-09T06:36:14Z")
What a weird poll. Not even one credible answer on there, rambling on into absurdity. It’s drought conditions. It’s happened many times before. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Pig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c57346/32.png) [@Little\_Pig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Pig)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2014, 6:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beef-prices-hit-all-time-high-in-u-s-who-do-you-blame/685696/6 "2014-04-09T06:52:20Z")
> [@Omar\_Little](#): > > What a weird poll. Not even one credible answer on there, rambling on into absurdity. > > It’s drought conditions. It’s happened many times before. Yeup. So, ah, did you vote? ---
**Author:** ![micadw](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c2a13f/32.png) [@micadw](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/micadw)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2014, 7:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beef-prices-hit-all-time-high-in-u-s-who-do-you-blame/685696/7 "2014-04-09T07:19:29Z")
> [@Omar\_Little](#): > > What a weird poll. Not even one credible answer on there, rambling on into absurdity. > > It’s drought conditions. It’s happened many times before. Perhaps in your area. We have had a surplus of several inches this past year. I am neither rambling nor absurd. ---
**Author:** ![Space\_Vegetable](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6de8d8/32.png) [@Space\_Vegetable](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Space_Vegetable)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2014, 9:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beef-prices-hit-all-time-high-in-u-s-who-do-you-blame/685696/8 "2014-04-09T09:39:47Z")
Lucille Ball was clearly miscast, but I’m not exactly sure how that led to high beef prices. Probably those butterflies again. ---
**Author:** ![Cyros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a698b9/32.png) [@Cyros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cyros)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2014, 9:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beef-prices-hit-all-time-high-in-u-s-who-do-you-blame/685696/9 "2014-04-09T09:43:20Z")
It’s obvious that **Little\_Pig** is at the beginning of a campaign to pressure the government into providing beef subsidies to bring the price down in an attempt to keep people from turning to pork (mmm, succulent pork). ---
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2014, 10:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beef-prices-hit-all-time-high-in-u-s-who-do-you-blame/685696/10 "2014-04-09T10:09:35Z")
They should never have let the cows unionize. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2014, 10:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beef-prices-hit-all-time-high-in-u-s-who-do-you-blame/685696/11 "2014-04-09T10:11:02Z")
So, where _is_ the beef, then? ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2014, 10:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beef-prices-hit-all-time-high-in-u-s-who-do-you-blame/685696/12 "2014-04-09T10:27:52Z")
Obama. ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2014, 10:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beef-prices-hit-all-time-high-in-u-s-who-do-you-blame/685696/13 "2014-04-09T10:29:42Z")
[It’s not just beef.](http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2014/04/08/why-the-price-of-bacon-may-soar-by-10-percent-or-more/) ---
**Author:** ![Crafter\_Man](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crafter_man/32/458_2.png) [@Crafter\_Man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crafter_Man)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2014, 10:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beef-prices-hit-all-time-high-in-u-s-who-do-you-blame/685696/14 "2014-04-09T10:52:18Z")
I blame supply and demand. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![BrokenBriton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@BrokenBriton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrokenBriton)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2014, 11:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beef-prices-hit-all-time-high-in-u-s-who-do-you-blame/685696/15 "2014-04-09T11:02:40Z")
I blame the meat eaters. ---
**Author:** ![DrFidelius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drfidelius/32/3447_2.png) [@DrFidelius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrFidelius)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2014, 11:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beef-prices-hit-all-time-high-in-u-s-who-do-you-blame/685696/16 "2014-04-09T11:21:10Z")
You’re trying to make an observation on the Americam media’s political biases, aren’t you? ---
**Author:** ![Raguleader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/258eb7/32.png) [@Raguleader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Raguleader)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2014, 11:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beef-prices-hit-all-time-high-in-u-s-who-do-you-blame/685696/17 "2014-04-09T11:29:06Z")
This would have never happened if we didn’t let the cows unionize. ---
**Author:** ![Si\_Amigo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/si_amigo/32/2877_2.png) [@Si\_Amigo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Si_Amigo)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2014, 12:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beef-prices-hit-all-time-high-in-u-s-who-do-you-blame/685696/18 "2014-04-09T12:12:25Z")
> [@Shakes](#): > > Obama. Specifically Obamacare. Although they are still looking into that Bengazi thing so that may be a factor, which will of course eventually lead up to Hillary. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2014, 1:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beef-prices-hit-all-time-high-in-u-s-who-do-you-blame/685696/19 "2014-04-09T13:08:45Z")
I blame YOU!!! ---
**Author:** ![bump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7c8e57/32.png) [@bump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bump)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2014, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beef-prices-hit-all-time-high-in-u-s-who-do-you-blame/685696/20 "2014-04-09T13:27:56Z")
> [@FairyChatMom](#): > > [It’s not just beef.](http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2014/04/08/why-the-price-of-bacon-may-soar-by-10-percent-or-more/) One more reason to say “Fuck China.” What is it with China and diseases like this? [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beef-prices-hit-all-time-high-in-u-s-who-do-you-blame/685696.md?page=2)