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

Possibly. I need to cut back on certain foods (red meat, empty carbs) and increase others (fish, fruits and veggie), and I'll still keep attempting to this regardless of food prices.

It already has, years ago.

I seldom purchase meat anyway.Never the imported china meat from Walmart.

More local fish & vegetables, and less beef, pork, and chicken. It will give me an opportunity to eat a little more healthy, anyway.

I don't eat much meat in the first place.

I get mine off a local butcher and he is much lower then what I can buy it for in a name store so I dont think its going to effect me at all,besides good food is about the best enjoyment I get

I'll probably eat out less.

I am right on the edge right now. Any increases in prices will mean that I just stop eating.

Geesh!

I rarely buy any of the two. I eat lots of pork, fish and venison.

definitely.....will only buy weekly sales, more home cook meals and more "doggie bags" to work.

Of course.

But it's not just meat that is affected by the drought. All foods are. The lead time for beef production from birth to slaughter for food is the longest of the food chain.

Can you explain why you think that fast food is a cheaper option? The foods at fast food chains will increase as well.

However, don't expect the "inflation" rate the government puts out to reflect the increases. Just as the increases in the cost of gasoline and heating fuels is not reflected in that rate, food is not included.

Think it doesn't matter? The official inflation rate is what determines certain government payout increases. Social security benefits are based upon that official rate, so as long as it is kept low, senior citizens do not get an increase to match the true inflation in their budgets.

2 words. Beans and Rice.

A hundred ways to make meals with beans and rice. I was taught how to do that!

Not at all, I wish Fall and Winter would hurry up though.

I don't hardly eat meat now because it's already too expensive, but I'll still splurge once in a while and buy a couple of steaks or a roast. Not much of a chicken person, though.

In their infinite stupidity Congress has mandated that 40% of the corn crop go to the production of ethanol, a product that requires more energy to produce that it produces itself. The corn that goes to this boondoggle was used for food sources in thousands of food products for humans and as feed for livestock. Food prices have been rising at an alarming rate for the last 5 years and are only going to get worse...all in the name of "green" energy....what a crock.

Excellent post.
Also, the high prices caused by ethanol corn have caused large amounts of marginal land to be converted to corn crops, with the bulldozing of trees, the stripping of waterways, and the use of huge amounts of fertilizer and chemicals to make the corn grow and control weeds and insects. My own small acreage with a 3 acre pond has been ruined by the conversion of rolling pasture land to corn by a neighboring farmer. The chemicals running off that land have completely removed all vegetation from the pond and the few remaining fish are stunted. We used to eat the fish from the pond; not any more.

Not only does using the corn in fuel cause food shortage but it is hard on equipment and eats away hoses, diaphragm inside the carburetor etc.

You are so right about the ethanol. What an incredibly idiotic program and subsidy. It actually costs us energy to produce ethanol.
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David Pimentel, a professor of ecology at Cornell University who has been studying grain alcohol for 20 years, and Tad Patzek, an engineering professor at the University of California, Berkeley, co-wrote a recent report that estimates that making ethanol from corn requires 29 percent more fossil energy than the ethanol fuel itself actually contains.

we will pay more because of the dry and hot weather not good

Eat more bacon

I'm already a vegetarian so no.

I think somewhat. We already really watch the ads, and use coupons to buy our food, because things have skyrocketed in the last 3 1/2 years.

We have our own cows to butcher. And I don't try to eat too much meat anyways.

Cuz I'm too damn poor to begin with!!!

They haven't stopped me yet. Just means I have to shop around.

But my real concern is my business. I own restaurants and this could be a problem for me.

My meat is raised in the country in which I live, which is not America.

Curious as to why they've said 'meat' and 'poultry', as if poultry is not meat.

The drought has effected the grain supply to feed cattle and poultry, price of feed is going up therefore the end product will go up. Not to mention that the water supply for the animals has been effected so there has been a decrease in the size of the animal and animal deaths due to drought conditions.

Time to dust off the fishing poles and hunting rifles, people. Venison is far better for you than beef, anyway!

I went to the store yesterday and bought a gallon of milk, a box of cereal, a package of peaches and three loose peaches and a 2 liter beverage. After a coupon and so-called store savings: $15.03. I think with this price increase, my daughter and I will be eating a lot less. It's getting harder and harder to buy what we need, never mind anything we might want. Water is the number one drink in our home. I also drink coffee black or drink tea (cheaper than coffee). So, we've already started scaling back.

If food costs more, then it will be reflected in my spending by reductions in other places I spend money. For example, do I really need a smart phone with a data plan? Not really.

Yes it will the cake is only so big every time fuel or food or insurance and utility prices go up something has to be cut back even if it means going cold in winter turning the heat an hour later and turning it off an hour earlier. cutting down on the amount of food you put on the plate not getting the paper cutting down on donation's to charity etc your income is stuck at the present level so you have to be so careful and watch what you spend no luxuries anymore .

Grain is up, too. We won't change the way we eat at home. If anything, we'll eat out less.

Absolutely.

My eating habits have already changed in that regard - for moral rather than financial reasons.

Already has.

They already do. They always have. Else I'd be eating steak every night. :-)

almost 3 years meat free