Beef and Poultry Prices Expected to Increase: Will Rising Food Prices Change Your Eating Habits?

It already has for the last two almost three years.

A mans got to eat, I will cut back somewhere else to make up the difference.

Hubby and I just finished picking 100 lbs of tomatoes which I will be canning.. as well as other veggies I already canned.. more people should learn to grow what they can and to can it that way the meat prices won't be so much of a strain on their budget..

i don't eat meat,i am a huge couponer,so no,i truly doubt it.

Already vegetarian no big deal.

America has relatively cheap food in relation to their income. There is an expected short term drop in beef and pork prices that may or may not be shared with the consumer. The actual rise of meat costs later should be modest, save speculators and corporations seek to get as much as they can from the consumer.

Already has.. and im ten pounds smaller. Perhaps its a conspiresy..or the beginning

I have already changed my eating habits, and it doesn't really have anything to do with cost, it's health I'm looking for. Not to say I don't eat any indulgent food, but I eat less of it.

it won't be a problem for vegetarian people. :D

eating habits are changing anyway

Strange that in a land of so much obesity we're worried about the cost of food.... If it really changed our eating habits and most importantly our portion sizes this would be an incredible opportunity for this country's waist line, diabetes epidemic and other obesity related issues (heart disease, cancer, joint disease, etc...)

I can deal with it.

Nor a little, I became a vegan two weeks ago. not due the price of beef, neither due to the health concerns; but because the abusive slavery of animals by the men, has being worring to me.

It might make me "fast" more often, but I'll still eat beef and poultry.

I cut back on meat eating years ago.

It's won't just be meat and poultry that's going up--dairy and grains, fruits and vegetables are going up too. And for anybody that has a cat or dog, you already have seen sharp increases in the cost of pet food that has affected people so much, there have been record high numbers of people giving up their pets to animal shelters. So the increases in food costs don't just affect people, they affect animals too, often costing them their lives.

Our family is struggling to make ends meet right now as it is, and the fact that food prices and oil prices are shooting up is not easy on us, which means there will be sacrifices made somewhere. No way around it. But don't forget, to Obummer and his administration, inflation is being kept LOW...uh-huh, yeah, right. How convenient for them to restructure the inflation index to NOT include the costs of food and fuel. I bet Jimmy Carter had wished he had thought of that during his administration. Obummer knows no shame. No, the drought is not being caused by his administration, but food costs had already dramatically risen under his policies even before this drought. Now the upcoming price increases means millions of families across the country are going to be enduring great hardships ahead, and they have been made even worse by Obummer being in the white house.

If you want to be healthy you shouldn't eat beef or contaminated chicken anyway.

Gives me another reason not to eat meat !

Gotta eat!

cuz i dont have a food habit.

I don't eat animals to begin with.

I haven't eaten red meats since like 7 years ago anyway^^

Eating less meat is probably a good idea anyway.

Not at all. I'm a confirmed meatatarian.

That reminds me of one time that I went down to the Eastern Market in Detroit several years ago and was buying certain medium priced cuts of lamb and beef. I meandered down the meat cooler to the end where the lower priced items were and was amazed at some of the items on display (I'll just say that they were not portions that were cut from the animals' muscle tissues)!

meat ages the internal organs as well as outside.plus all the toxicity that come with it....defin..will go vegetarian..pass the tofu,beans,mushroom and berries..

Where have u been, they already have. Now that were are faced with this dilemma and the fact that we've allowed our national food industry to be hijacked and shipped off shore, don't u think those food sources will take advantage of our challenges.? Its difficult now since bush lowered the meat standard for me to buy domestic product. Where is the power to tarriff when the nation's people need it?

No, because I don't eat much meat anyway.

vegetarian... but it is a bummer for all those that enjoy meat

Oh, well.

Not going to affect me at all since I grow my own livestock beef, chickens and harvest crops here as we have for several years.

Seems people have forgotten that we used to be a nation that was self supporting.

I grow and preserve all my vegetables, and just put half a steer in the freezer 2 days ago. Now for deer season and I am set for a year as long as my chickens keep laying...

Look's like I will become every squirrel and rabbits worst nightmare...

I'm a poor college student. Eh that's alright eating red meat like beef too often is bad for you, maybe I'll get healthier.

They've been rising for decades. It has never changed my eating habits before so I doubt it will this time.

When Bush was in office,it cost me $85 buck a week for food. Now under this meat head obungle's it's double.

I'm a vegan so there is no bearing on my eating habits.

Dog is not on my menu yet,but of course it will.