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Tyson Foods announces 30%+ price hike for beef and pork as food inflation explodes
Tyson, the largest meat producer in the United States, is about to increase prices for chicken, beef and pork. For over a year, the company refrained from raising their prices, even as inflation put pressure on their quarterly earnings. Now the company has no choice but increase their prices by between 19-38 percent.
Inflation has risen to its highest level in thirty-one years, as America faces historic incompetence in the Congress and the White House. Instead of sticking to a budget and adhering to responsible economic policies, the U.S. Congress passed a $1 trillion spending bill, insulting American taxpayers and common sense. Joe Biden signed the spending extravaganza with glee, claiming that additional government spending will help the current economic situation.
He said the current inflation is only temporary and Americans need not worry. Biden says the benefits of his new infrastructure deal will soon be felt (even though out-of-control government spending is one of the main reasons why inflation continues to skyrocket). “My message to the American people is this: America is moving again and your life is going to change for the better,” Biden lied through his false teeth.
As inflation explodes, companies are increasing costs at a historic pace
As inflation explodes and as government spending continues to spiral out of control, major food retailers are preparing for new, historic price hikes on top of the price increases they already expected. Tyson Foods just announced new price hikes for chicken, beef and pork. During the fourth quarter of 2021, chicken prices are set to go up 19 percent; beef is set to go up 33 percent; and pork prices will rise 38 percent. The company contradicts the Biden administration and says rising prices will continue into the foreseeable future, as long as inflation continues to put pressure on the company.
“Inflation has clearly had an impact on the business,” said CEO Donnie King. “As rates of inflation continue, so will our pricing actions.”
On the company’s quarterly earnings call, Tyson Foods CFO Stewart Glendinning said the company has not increased prices to adjust for inflation throughout 2021, but hopes to recover those cost increases during fiscal year 2022. “We expect to take continued pricing actions to ensure that any inflationary cost increases that our business incurs are passed along.”
Tyson is expected to see revenues of $47 billion in 2021 and expects anywhere from $49 to $51 billion in 2022. The increases in revenue over the next year aren’t expected to result in higher profits, as operation costs continue to rise.
Like most US companies, Tyson is dealing with increased labor costs, thanks to the federal government’s plan to pay people extra to stay home and not work. The labor shortages are exacerbated by unlawful vaccine mandates that are driving hard working people out of the labor force and into the black market.
Tyson is also dealing with increased transportation costs thanks to the Biden regime’s war on American energy, pipelines, coal and natural gas. The cost of feed grain and packaging is also going up, giving the company more reasons to raise their prices.
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, Bureau of Economic Analysis, inflation is causing historic price increases throughout the economy. Used cars are now up 26%. Fuel is up 59%. Laundry equipment is up 15%. Furniture is up 12%. Foods like eggs, bacon and steak are up 11%, 20% and 24% respectively. From September to October of this year, consumer prices have risen on average, .9 percent. The Bureau reports that prices of consumer goods have risen six percent over the past year alone, with no end in sight.
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Looks like we’re all going on the Venezuela diet. I am not eating zebra, though.
Look at the bright side…those fat lesbos at the Y may just drop a few pounds, providing you with a more pleasant view while you work out. Win/win.
Fat lesbos at the Y ….Hahhahaha
Thanks, Abby. You’re always looking out for me! I was there today (mid-day) and the whole pool area was closed because they can’t find workers (for what they pay). When I asked a couple months ago, they were paying $14 / hour. I think they’re up to $15 /hour now, but no takers. I think they should offer $200 an hour for some smoking hot chicks. Even if they can’t swim. Let the little buggers fend for themselves while the hot lifeguards traipse around in bikinis.
Been planning to exercise at the Y. This is my 75th year of failing to get started. Is it to late for me?
If you are above ground, it is never too late.
Lived right close to a Y and went every day they were open for almost 2 years. Went mainly for the hot tub, sauna and therapy pools, but kinda worked out maybe once or twice a week. It was mostly fitness by osmosis but I felt good and got sixpacks and took up my belt two notches.
ROFL!!
Be sure to have a really good plan before you start.
I am a bit older but follow the same pattern. When in doubt grab a beer and put your feet up. Helps reduce the stress of not exercising.
it is never too late to exercise more.
We don’t have any zebra but the neighbors do have a zonkey ( zebra/donkey mix). If times get tough send in your order!
Good thing I’ve been buying my beef from a local farmer who only feeds them grass. Cost of grass doesn’t seem to be rising. Also, I buy my pork from a local farmer who raises his pigs on pasture as well. His prices are still very competitive.
I am so glad we got our farm and we will be raising just such beef. Cost of grass is rising, if you are buying it in hay form. We are going to do pigs on pasture too. I want to get into goat cheese, but that is down the road. I don’t want to buy too much feed and no more chemicals than I would use on myself if I had to be outside all day. We are so happy and so blessed. I am going to want to pick HF’s brain for how to approach slop sourcing and feeding. I really don’t want to have to source any feed off farm, but some will be necessary.
Yes. Complexity, scale, and debt drive costs higher. In the real world people will figure out how to survive without the system, which is doing its best to drive healthy people away from it anyway.
another good reason to buy local if possible.
A Tyson product was my last hold out to the occasional desperate junk food. Then they mandated the death shot. I am sure I am healthier now. I liked the hot wing strips.
I have a sick pup who can ONLY eat beef…GREAT timing!
who trained who?
Clever little coward.
Make your own dog food…it’s coming down to that. I had to go to Wally world today so I thought I’d go look at the pet section. Canned cat and dog food are very scarce. Probably due to meat costs.
Growing up dog food was table scraps mixed with cornbread and milk and, maybe, bacon fat. I make dog food with white rice, beef/chicken (cheap cuts) and other meat scraps like turkey necks(no pork) mixed veggies and a can of sardines and if handy, a dozen eggs. The annoying thing is if I don’t thoroughly mash the veggies I discover a very clean little pile of veggies in the bottom of the bowl. How do they manage to lick a pea and not squash it?
I’ll do that for my other dog. But one dog is refusing all food…unless it’s steak or hamburger meat, that’s it! His liver is failing and trying last ditch efforts to get him well. He’ll probably be crossing the Rainbow Bridge soon. So…he can have all the steak he wants, even if it costs me an arm and leg.
Good girl, Love him for the lesser being . Your his world. A chance to know what it is to be God and deal with life and death. No laughing matter is it?
Thanks. I’m totally at peace with it. He’s had the most amazing life any dog can have. He’s traversed the Rocky Mountains with me on many backpacking, hiking, and camping trips. He has seen the world!
A true friend indeed. Loyal to a fault, a gift.
Can you tell I love dogs. Mine is viscous and yet loyal to a tee. He protects his own. His loyalty is not to be misunderstood. He will stand for his master with no regard for himself. An unmistakable majesty and nobility. A friend of the highest order. Serious, yet kind to his masters needs. A true friend of mine, one of few. My dog.
Yes, I can. 🙂 They are best companions. Better than most people.
Thanks for a fitting tribute to man’s best friend!
gotta love a good dog.
So sad. I hope your last ditch efforts work.
Thanks, Leah! It’s all good.
I adore my dogs, they’re the nicest people I know.
Sorry to hear that…I had a cat who also suffered with liver failure, it’s tough to love a critter and then have them get sick.
Thanks, MG. I have a rambunctious black lab puppy too who is keeping me very active!
My son makes all dog food now. Dogs are healthier and quite satisfied with their new meal choices. Lots of brown rice and vegetables (pumpkin, squash, Green beans , beets etc). Thin sliced and dessicated chicken breast for treats
what did we do before pet food.
So Long CAFO’s!
Which Companies Use CAFOs?
A huge range of stores and brands, including supermarkets and fast-food chains, sell products that come from CAFOs, but a handful of giant multinational food producers dominate the sector.
In the U.S., for example, 63 percent of pig processing lies in the hands of just three companies—JBS, Tyson Foods, and WH Group Limited. Two of these, JBS and Tyson Foods, are also responsible for 46 percent of cow slaughter and 38 percent of chicken processing. Each of these companies owns several different brands.
It’s not a secret process. Plenty of slaughterhouse videos for each type of protein on youtube. If one buys their protein at a grocery store they should watch and see how it is done. It is quite amazing.
Pork
Watching that dystopian industrial nightmare from beginning to end only to see them stuff the finished product into boxes labelled “FarmLand” was almost beyond my ability to comprehend.
Cage free!
Tyrants always use food as a weapon eventually.. Makes you easier to control and gains your complete compliance.
10/10 Kulaks agree.
There is is! This is all part of the war on us by the tyrants. Until we are brave enough to fight back, they will continue to implement ever more brutal tyranny upon us. Freedom, liberty and prosperity is reserved for the brave who are able and willing to fight for them. We are losing them because we have become a nation of cowards, unwilling to fight for ourselves.
I think HSF posted a video about the toxins in our soils due to chemical farming, but I’m not sure it addressed the relationship to the decline in human health.
Nor the connection to Big Pharma.
Roundup is an antibiotic that happens to kill weeds. It does a lot of other terrible things too.
Sure am looking foward to my 5.9% SS Retirement increase.
Should make my Purina dinners more affordable.
I just read that the 14.5% Medicare increase is a new record, so we can kiss much of our SS increase goodbye before we even see it.
So just where do you expect the money for all the new illegal immigration funding to come from? Of course you should be willing to sacrifice your Social Security for the illegals, the left says so….
Here’s my futuristic money maker idea. advertise bags of dog food ok for humans to eat.
Have you ever looked at the pictures on the bag? Lots of good looking food.
Alpo for everyone! THE BEST OF TIMES!
Thanks HSF, What’s not to expect–its food control and legitimate inflation from our failed economics.. I’m neither vegan nor paleo, but it’s a fact that Americans eat more meat than almost any other country on earth. We can eat less and still be healthy. Last year gardening I started shifting to planting more high protein foods. Those of us who can adapt will adapt, but pity those who can’t grow anything or are totally dependent on the Great American Food Chain. We must boycott and adapt not to punish the producers, but because it is good for our health and our finances.
I don’t know if it is age or what, but I never believed that, when I was younger. At least for me over the hill, I have learned I feel better with less meat and more green (or other colored) vegetables. I am certain it was the opposite when I was younger. It is so hard to feel good now, that I care less about taste and more about health.
It is less about the amount of meat and more about the variety of natural food sources that works for me. Staying away from stuff that might be glyphosate contaminated has worked wonders. I get skin rashes on my face if I eat processed carbs.
Soup bones. If you buy a beef, or portion, be sure to request the soup bones. Our rancher even sells dog bones for very cheap. You can makes soup go a long way.
The genius of the Reset/communism and progressive politics.
I can only imagine the future costs of trying to feed animals when the overlords want people eating insects. Something to consider.
I sure as hell don’t buy Tyson products. I can’t absolutely say that no restaurant I’ve eaten at hasn’t served it, but being from Tennessee, where they had numerous issues, I already know to stay away. Now in the Midwest it’s a lot of the same.
I won’t eat any Tyson Products ever since I learn that they employ hundreds if not thousands of muslimes
Wow, this new normal is awesome!
Proud to be part of this epic time in American history and do my part as we Build Back Better!
Can’t wait to see what’s next!!!!
To see the future bend over and look straight back between your knees. Enjoy the View .
Thanks Joey. I guess this is your form of “Build Back Better”. Fuck you and the supposed 81 million people who voted for you. Sure.
This is going to sound so stupid, but whatever. We rely on reasoning and other animals rely on instinct or that gut feeling. I’m not discounting reasoning, but sometimes the instinct knows. WTF beaver is prompting you to act that way?
It could be that Winter is coming, or it could mean something more sinister.
Dark winter… I hate to even type those words.
GCP. Yes, those words typed together are ominous. I have turned my life back to God in the past year plus or minus a couple of months. Hoping it isn’t too late. I remember words you spoke to me and they helped.
Jesus is the Lord of Light. He can dispel all darkness if you will trust Him for your salvation. Knowing Christ as Saviour dispels ALL fear. II Timothy 1:7 For God has not given us the spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind. Makes you feel good all over!
If you’re still breathing, it ain’t too late… 😊 Christ did it all!!! Amen!
121 days till Spring!
He’s dragging lunch inside his little house. Beavers eat all but the heartwood from trees, shrubs and other woody plants.
Same stuff we call ‘salad’.
What happens when governments create problems in order to gain control of a population.
“Inflation has risen to its highest level in thirty-one years, as America faces historic incompetence in the Congress and the White House.”
Incompetence my Aunt Tillie! This is a direct attack on our country destroying the economic validity of the U.S. dollar.
It is the Kamikaze Presidency… prepare accordingly.
This documentary about the Holomodor might be instructive.
I really am tired of the censorship and subtle discouragement from viewing videos You Tube considers dangerous.
It really would not be hard for a dictator like Biden with a Politburo like he has now (ignorant Winkem, Blinkem and Nod?) to decide to nationalize all of the food industry to ensure “equity.”
The first video I posted is worth your time, if you can listen in the background and refer to the screen when compelled by the narrative. Stalin sent troops house to house in ALL of Ukraine taking food. The tore up floors and busted walls to find any morsels hidden away. Children disappeared and were eaten by neighbors. However, just like what is currently happening in our country, the courts were censored and such crimes were called something else.
Simply redefine the word: Self-defense = Vigilantism
Storing food = Theft
I really do think folks should really learn a bit about the Holomodor that is coming, even if in cartoon form. It is that important.
Lenin started it and it failed but Stalin sealed the borders and sent in enough soldiers and KGB agents to do it. Were there Jews in the Soviet Army and KGB? Yes.
Communism is evil and it drives all sorts to do terrible things in the name of “equity.”
I watched it and think it an excellent video.
Some of my ancestors were named Yerger.
They left Germany in the late 1800s, already feeling some pressure about their Jewish heritage and customs. By the time they arrived at Ellis island, they were Catholic.
They assimilated and owned a neighborhood market in St. Louis. Their daughter (Martha Yerger) married a Vollmar, whose sons owned a construction company that built Six Flags St. Louis. The youngest daughter attended nursing college near Columbia, where she met and fell in love with a young agricultural student who decided to buy newly drained swampland in Southeast Missouri for a dollar an acre.
I asked a Christian Zionist pastor what played a greater role in God’s eyes about whether or not a person is a Jew: Bloodline or Religious Discipline.
What do you think he said? I really don’t feel very Jewish and was raised in a KJV Bible-thumping church in the dell, but he suggested that technically, I’m a Jew if I’m 1/8.
Well, how about it gets cancelled by the fact that Great-great granny Martha married an aristocratic German Catholic?
I think the sort of Jews most of us know and have known have little relationship to the power hungry servants of Lucifer masquerading as God’s Chosen.
Some famous philosopher who did not believe in God said something along this line: (very much summarized, but that was his point)
The only Jewish people I ever knew were indeed devout. They lived next door to Nick’s parents and were polite but kept to themselves. They attended the funeral and told me a nice story about my Poppa G.
If most of the evil powerful people taking over the world right now are of Jewish descent, it is probably because the Jewish people tend to have IQs quite a bit higher than almost every other group.
In Commentary in April 2007, Charles Murray, the coauthor of The Bell Curve (1994), again made the claim that “Jews are smarter” than everyone else (Murray, 2007). In The Bell Curve, he and his late (and Jewish) coauthor, Richard Herrnstein, first presented their argument about the intellectual superiority of “Ashkenazic Jews of European origins,” who “test higher than any other ethnic group (Murray and Herrnstein, 1994). Jews in America and Britain have an overall IQ mean somewhere between a half and a full standard deviation above the mean, with the source of the difference concentrated in the verbal component.” Murray again makes the argument of an unmistakable “Jewish Genius,” in Commentary, but now with an explanation:
Insofar as I am suggesting that the Jews may have had some degree of unusual verbal skills going back to the time of Moses, I am naked before the evolutionary psychologists′ ultimate challenge. Why should one particular tribe at the time of Moses, living in the same environment as other nomadic and agricultural peoples of the Middle East, have already evolved elevated intelligence when the others did not? At this point, I take sanctuary in my remaining hypothesis, uniquely parsimonious and happily irrefutable. The Jews are God’s chosen people. (Murray, 2007)
From the NIH, by the way…
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3190562/
So, if our elite intellectuals and overlords are a bunch of money hungry thieves and liars, imagine how much more clever and dastardly the Jewish intellectuals are, since they are a full standard deviation above the best of us!
They may be Jewish, Yo, but they are really just evil men doing Satan’s bidding.
Truth! Well, to be sure,the white house is incompetent but the people running the show from behind are not incompetent, just plain demon possessed evil. II TIMOTHY 3:2 For men shall be lovers of themselves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, 3:3 without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, 3:4 heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God.
The end times appear to have arrived. Be still and know that I am God. Psalm 46:10
A P has a comment above about a beaver, and then G C P.
If you have never read The Long Winter by Laura Ingalls Wilder you should. It is a Little House On The Prairie series book, easy to read and great for children also. Reminds me of The Road.
Mr. Ingalls noticed the animals getting ready for a hard winter, and sure enough almost starvation comes due to lack of supplies coming in by train. A lot of lessons in this little book, hardships and courage.
This culture is not immune to very hard times.
Ginger…I agree with you 100%. One of my favorite series. That series should be read by everyone…especially the Long Winter. I have thought about that book a lot and how they almost starved to death.
Five minutes from my house is a Amish butcher shop in the middle of no f’n where. I can assure you they have plenty of meat that is organic and grass fed. I haven’t bought a Tyson product in at least 25 years and will continue on the same path. I really don’t care what they charge and would not take their products if they were giving the stuff away.
This article is not for folks like us. We’re a couple of decades ahead of the curve in terms of understanding the situation.
It should serve as a wake up call to those who are just beginning to understand that there is a serious problem looming that has nothing to do with economics or agriculture.
HF- The serious problem looming is that TPTB want to outlaw real food of any kind to be replaced with replicated gunk that they control entirely. First they poisoned the water with fluoride so people would buy their version of municipal tap water in a plastic bottle, now it’s every other foodstuff that they can convince you is taboo. God forbid that you raise your own food leaving them out of a monopoly.
Better than buying the beef for preparation, I can go to the Amish buffet and get a meal with a huge portion of roast beef (pot roast) with two vegetables/sides and homemade bread for $7.99. Same goes for pork and chicken so why cook? And why eat the garbage Tyson puts out for consumption?
Most city people are within an hour to an hour and a half from country meat markets, they COULD take the time to go and stock up or order meat from someone like you. I cringe at the Frankenfood at grocery stores which is pretty much all that is available unless you have 30 dollars to buy a small chunk of real meat in the meat counter. The frozen food section is full of nothing but faux food.
or politics, or everything to do with politics… That’s why I keep the loaded .308 in the back of the pickup.
30% of the US population is on food stamps. Looks like that will be going up to 50% soon.
Don’t forget that all immigrants are given an EBT card.
Food inflation is good to them. They can finally reduce some fat from their huge waist.
Beans, particularly garbanzo beans, are easy to store and extremely nutritious. I have 200 LB garbanzo beans stored at home. Once sprouted, they become vegetables. Once cooked, they become something like meals. All beans must be organic.
Yes the globalists want us all eating their beyond meat/solyent green.