• UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    34
    arrow-down
    2
    ·
    edit-2
    1 month ago

    What’s crazy is that ground beef is practically a waste product. You can get it for under $4/lb in Houston. Hell, come by certain grocery stores at the end of the day and they’re trashing buckets of it.

    $6.12 for something that’s filling up garbage cans and landfills to the tune of 429.2 million lbs in 2022 alone? Seems like Americans are getting price gouged.

    • starman2112@sh.itjust.works
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      29
      arrow-down
      3
      ·
      1 month ago

      536,000 cows, forced to sit in their own shit for 18 months just to be unceremoniously slaughtered and thrown right in the trash, like some fucked up torture treadmill

    • Univ3rse@lemmynsfw.com
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      15
      arrow-down
      1
      ·
      1 month ago

      It really is incredible how much land is used, pollution created, and environmental devastation caused to create more waste for landfills, furthering the aforementioned problems. Meanwhile, folks starve next door and around the globe. Coming down from the trees was a terrible decision.

    • The Octonaut@mander.xyz
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      5
      arrow-down
      1
      ·
      1 month ago

      Steak mince vs ground beef are different things.

      One is basically offal, the other could have been a steak. Unless they’re using the term incorrectly, the price should be different.