US BEEF SUPPLY CONTINUES TO DECLINE AS PRICES SOAR

    While weekend election-year dramas were focusing on debates on how we best can defend our borders against migrant farm-workers, how we can defend BlackRock's shipping interests in the Red Sea, and whom Taylor Swift might endorse for President, the USDA quietly slipped another rather embarrassing report under the media radar screen. It seems that American beef cattle production has reached a 73-year low: which most Americans probably noticed (if they weren't too stoned during shopping) at their local supermarkets. That is, for those who still have a local supermarket in Exceptional America. 

   These numbers need to be taken in some context. The US population in 1950 was about half of what it is today, so the smaller herd size then didn't have nearly the impact on prices from the demand-side that it has now.

    Also, inflation rates have grown by over 1000% since then, while the adjusted income levels for all of us little people has been stagnated for over five decades. 

     While all of this has been a benefit to Agribusiness consortia and the financial oligarchies funding them, it hasn't helped the American public too much. Because of these high prices, Americans often settle for lower-quality, less-healthy substitutes, which is reflected in our soaring obesity, type 2 diabetes, and infertility rates as well as our declining life expectancy rates. 

   Nobody is really bringing up any of these rather inconvenient issues during our biennial electoral circuses, although the Controlled Opposition will no doubt find some way to blame it all on immigrants leeching off the Food Stamp Program or the Chinese buying up American farmland. Given the millions that Big Ag spends on lobbying and that the majority of that spending lines GOP pockets, it's doubtful that anybody on the Right will have much to say about either Big Ag's or High Finance's hands in all of this price-gouging. 

   It is also highly likely that the influence of gangs of Corporate Crooks like the World Economic Forum will be dismissed as tin-foil hat conspiracy theories, even though the Commercial Oligarchs there have made no secret of their belief that there are too many useless eaters on the planet and indeed, fully 34 of the WEF's Elite Top 100 Strategic Partners are engaged in the Agribusiness Industry. Agribusiness giant Nestle is well-represented on the WEF Board of Trustees: in fact, the likely successor to Father Klaus when he goes the way of all flesh is the former CEO of Nestle, who not only believes that food chains should be in the hands of a few moneyed elites, but that water supplies should be as well. The Biden/Harris Junta has been reducing farmland in accordance with WEF goals and none of this has been challenged by Republicans in any way.

   But let's go on believing instead that holding our noses and voting those evil Democrats out in November magically will fix everything. McDonald's will have 15-cent hamburgers again and all of their employees will be native-born Americans once the Republicans are back in charge. The Republicans won't do stupid things like imposing bogus Green Energy schemes that drive up food prices, right?

       The best thing that most of us can do is organize campaigns like people doing abroad to buy local or from companies tied as little as possible to Big Ag. Network with local farmers and people who garden and raise their own food. Ignore the bloviating coming from both parties because neither have any solutions: in fact, everything they propose is counterproductive to our food security or public health. The fact that Marijuana is one of America's leading cash crops today and that most Americans have no idea how food is even produced shows about how much we can count on voting our way out of this.