Goomba38 > wrote:
>Cdonahey41 wrote:
>
>> Does anybody know why the price of beef has skyrocketed? I presume
>people have
>> been buying less, and would buy more if the price went down.
>
>Well... every newspaper I've read recently cite it as also being because of the
>increase in consumption (think Atkins)

Horseshit.

It's because thet cow producers got together and cartelled the price up.

If the Mad Cow spike didn't drop retail prices (it dropped
wholesale by 20% already), then it's a bunch of manure.

http://futures.tradingcharts.com/chart/FC/14

--Blair
"Time to start kicking some
monopolistic ass."