Well don't let anything screw up a good conspiracy theory, but the
state of Texas, from which comes the third highest agricultural output
in the US has lost upwards of $7Billion in 2011 due to drought. More
directly, Texas is the largest beef producer in the US and that
industry lost an estimated $3.23Billion. So you might factor in what
impact a drop in supply of that magnitude has on prices.

--bs

On Fri, 23 Mar 2012 15:10:26 -0500, Gene >
wrote:

>Just another reason to raise prices and screw us.
>1st the mad cow scare drove up beef prices. I called bull shit on that
>one. I never saw a mad cow. Hell, I never saw one that looked even
>kinda ****ed off.
>
>Mad cow=higher beef prices. So people purchased less beef and more
>chicken, so they raised chicken prices, so people moved to pork, so
>they raised pork prices, so more people started buying more veggies,
>so.....
>
>Now lets go back to beef because the prices aren't HIGH ENOUGH YET!
>
>I swear, they won't be happy till we are eating each other, and not in
>a fun way either.
>
>This just in:
>
>http://www.mnn.com/food/healthy-eati...treated-cattle
>
>I blame everything on Monsanto.
>
>Soylent Green is next!
>
>
>Gene
>
>It is a solemn thought: dead, the noblest man's meat is inferior to pork.
>- More Maxims of Mark, Johnson, 1927
>Mark Twain