Yep - the Aldi ad for this week has the Beyond Meat burgers on sale: 8 oz for $4.49. Target has the same 1/2 lb package of Beyond Meat burgers listed online for $5.99.... for two lousy 4 oz burgers. That puts the price per pound between $9 and $12.



You could buy a full pound of organic ground beef far cheaper than that, even some organic steaks would be cheaper per pound.



(Not that I buy organic - like Zei and CityGirl, I'm on limited finances, so buy the best I can for what I can afford.)

My local market has Wagyu* ground beef. Pricey, but it's the best I've tried next to Alderspring Ranch. For cheap I buy Walmart ground chuck in a roll. It tastes fresh and doesn't dry out when cooked like previously frozen meat does.

*Wagyu is any of the four Japanese breeds of beef cattle.

Wow. I buy regular hamburger in large packs at Costco and it's $3.99/lb.! Grass-fed is easily twice that, though I guess that does get in at your high end of $8. When it's available, it's close to twice what non-grass-fed is. Most of what I see is at my local farmer's market. Also, unlike everywhere else I've lived, the farmer's market here is much more expensive than the supermarket. Wherever it's sold, most grass-fed beef I see around here is $15–$25/lb. depending on the cut.

My finances aren't extremely limited, but given how much meat I eat, $15–$25/lb is too much for me. If I was able to buy farm-direct, it would be more in the $10–$15 range, with cheaper cuts like ground beef or chuck roast.

Grass-fed hamburger at BJ's here in Philadelphia runs about 5.50 to 6.50 a pound, but goes on sale often enough to be considered 5 to 6 dollars a pound. Generally speaking, meat is significantly higher in regular grocery stores so I have to confess to not being familiar with their prices for grass-fed hamburger.

Aldi sells good 100% organic 100% grass fed for a reasonable price.

Me? I'd do with fewer shoes, less jewelry, unfashionable clothes, no cable TV, not run the AC, no bottled water, and a bunch of other things to put better food in my body. It's a matter of priorities.

If you drive accelerating gradually as if there was an egg shell between your foot and the accelerator and when you see the light red ahead or a slower speed limit take your foot off the gas, you can get 100 extra miles per tankful. I've done this with 3 cars in a row. That's enough to put into better food and you get there within 5 minutes of when you would have otherwise.

Again, it's priorities. Grass fed is better for you too. It has a better balance of omega 3 and omega 6 fatty acids, plus it has CLA which helps you lose weight, corn finished beef does not.

But everybody's priorities are different, mine are not for everybody.

Bob

I just can't imagine how someone who is vegan and diabetic can prevent themselves from getting much worse because most of them are eating a ton of pure starchy carbs..

For protein, how much peanut butter does one person want to eat?? More carbs with some protein.

My 3 pack of strip steaks this week cost....drum roll please...
$3.77 per pound!!

I do stock when I can the grass-fed local Florida beef they carry at Publix. I figure I’m doing what’s good for my body as well as helping save the carbon footprint due to reduced transport costs.

The other day, however, I took my grandkids to Burger King. It’s right next door to “Doing Dishes” where the grandkids love to paint plates which then get fired in a kiln. Plus it has a great indoor playground, very nice during Florida summers.

Anyway my 10-year-old grandson wanted to try the Impossible Burger. I told him “ that’s the one that’s not actually meat you know”. He said he knew but wanted to try it anyway. And so he did and said it actually tasted pretty good. I asked him if I could have one bite and it actually was pretty tasty! But of course highly processed and pretty carby.

But my grandson kept going on about how it was more “healthy” than eating meat. His mom is a carnivore and they always have meat at dinner. Where does this come from? Are they teaching it at school? And my grandson loves steak and that’s what he requested for his birthday dinner last month.

But a FB relative just boasted proudly today that she’s been meat free for over a year now, and begging everyone to come join her to save the planet.

Propaganda wars, propagated by the factory farming industry and the militant vegans. And I'm afraid we are going to lose that war.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/20...gical-war-meat/



JANET STREET-PORTER: I don't mind going meat-free now and again but Tesco's Carl-and-Chloe vegan propaganda ad leaves me feeling nauseous

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/...g-nauseous.html

I'm certain that Tesco's primary motivation in all of this is the health of their customers and the animals that inhabit the planet. Tesco doesn't give a toss about plants, which are living things as well but don't show emotion when they are brutally killed at harvest for the vegans and vegetarians who support plantocide. While no one talks about this, the destruction of all living things is what keeps me awake at night. We could eat dirt, but healthy dirt contains bacteria, fungi, and other living organisms causing even more conflict. What a world, what a world.

Rob, cant be sure if you are being sarcastic , or not, just one of my quirks...... years ago when I was working thru the ethics of producing and eating meats, my thinking came full circle. That killing plants to eat like carrots, or potatoes, meant vegetabkes and fruits deserved consideration. My prayers of thanks for my food soared.......now Im far more conscious of the web of life, including the importance of fungii and bacteria in healthy soils.

The level of food waste is staggering. We need better systems of production , processing and use.

Even the editorial in support of eating meat implied that she "knew" it wasn't good for her, but maybe there was some compromise:

Can you imagine that instead this had read "In their eyes, humans can't eat vegetables a couple of days a week and opt for healthy meat the rest of the time"? Because it's still the vegetables that are healthy and meat should still just be a couple of days a week.

I have a varying appetite. I no longer eat a whole pound of grass-fed Aldi's hamburger at a sitting.

But nothing satisfies my hunger like protein, and I can only get that from animal products.

ah ya..... Buddist monks on aTV program are very limited in their ability to manage T2D. They are no meat. Wonder if that includes crickets??? lol