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    5 hours ago

    Which means the cattle gets less protein-rich food, therefore puts on meat less quickly, therefore the output of meat is reduced. Less meat ends up on shelves and individual prices may need to be upped, since the farmers still have similar costs, but less products to sell.

    Like, I donā€™t know, from what Iā€™ve heard, the US market is plagued by fairly monopolistic meat resellers, so maybe you are right that theyā€™re currently taking a big profit margin and can/must lower that margin as a result of this. But I still wouldnā€™t be all too sure that they wonā€™t find a way to drive up prices anyways.