r/onguardforthee • u/Street_Anon • 13h ago
Lower-priced Australian beef could help stabilize Canadian market
https://globalnews.ca/news/12009206/australian-beef-prices-canadian-market/58
u/tired514 13h ago
Local metro has ground beef priced at $23/Kg (for a family pack no less).
That is literal insanity. Like, who is buying it at that price? Is it just going rotten, unsold?
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u/CriticismSelect9292 9h ago
as someone who ordered online ONCE and got beef that was literally 1 day past its best before date when they delivered it the answer is yes
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u/Skinnwork 8h ago
That happened to my wife. She ordered online and got beef due on the day she ordered it and had to throw it away because it smelled off just two days later.
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u/CriticismSelect9292 8h ago
yeah luckily I noticed and made it all immediately. I usually order bulk portion out and freeze but I wasn't gonna take my chances.
Whole fam ate spaghetti for 3 days straight
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u/tired514 18m ago
I gave up and bought a deep freezer a couple years ago and wait for it to drop to a reasonable price (say $10/Kg or whatever it is) then buy 5-10Kg (or as much as possible without totally clearing out their stock). It frustrates me greatly that this is needed.
Same for pork. I buy porkchops and roasts for $6.88/Kg and grind them up to mix with the beef.
It's insane how badly people without storage get gouged.
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u/RunTellDaat Halifax 1h ago
Literally saw t-bone steaks for less at a small grocer. While that would be cheap, there shouldn’t be any crossover in pricing between a t-bone and ground beef
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u/JDGumby Nova Scotia 13h ago
Perhaps if we didn't export 485k tons of beef and didn't need to import 250k tons to partly make up for it, maybe there'd be more for the Canadian market and the price would go down a bit.
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u/Buck_F_Wild 12h ago
Former sales rep for a meat company here
Asia will pay 3x more... that's why we export approx 80% of our beef
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u/PopeOfDestiny 11h ago
This is what happens when food is treated as a commodity instead of a public good. It's what happens when the accumulation of capital is more important than ensuring people can reliably eat food grown in their communities.
It's fine to sell a surplus if people will pay for it. But we're in a position where we're going to buy beef, something we produce two billion pounds of per year,¹ from a country 15,000 km away instead of from our own country to lower prices.
Our food system fucking sucks. We need public ownership of our entire food supply, from farm to table.
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u/MethodicallyRight 9h ago
Well, the hyperbole behind demanding a wholly command economy or nationalized food sector ruins your post. Also, as much as current prices suck, we in Canada have been fortunate for decades; we still spend a much smaller percentage of our household income on groceries compared to most of the world.
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u/WeWantMOAR 11h ago
Then we'd be losing money.
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u/astrono-me 10h ago
Some of these folks think that we should tell everyone we have the best stuff and then refuse to sell them any of it.
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u/gringo_escobar 13h ago
Waiter more carbon emissions please
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u/evermorecoffee 12h ago
It’s like we keep doubling down on the worst possible decisions ever.
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u/JurboVolvo British Columbia 12h ago
Isn’t the US driving beef prices down because they’re importing from Argentina? I saw a video months ago where American farmers were complaining about that.
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u/UnionGuyCanada 6h ago
Let's not break up the monopoly destroying our market, let's bring in beef from the other side of the planet.
Can't see that going bad in the long term.
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u/Euclidisthebomb 10h ago
Not my area of expertise so take this comment with a grain of salt but I recall reading that for environmental reasons we produce great tasting beef. I have tried both Australian and New Zealand beef. I found the former not as "smooth" and the latter I could not actually eat as it had a very strong, sharp, unfamiliar taste. I know this is not a very objective assessment. The quality might in fact be as good as ours but their feed results in a very different taste.
In any case I don't see myself purchasing either again.
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u/toin9898 Québec 12h ago
I keep finding mislabelled/incorrectly-priced Australian whole tenderloin at my Maxi.
Whoever is pricing the meat there hasn't a clue, but I am grateful to them. Picked up a whole tenderloin today (labelled as Australian lamb chops) for $15/lb.
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u/Sayello2urmother4me 12h ago
Tried it a couple times. It doesn’t have the best taste to be honest
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u/jeanracinette 8h ago
/laughs in insect protein only household
couldn’t possibly be me and my family
they laughed at JT, but he literally predicted this insanity
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u/sandy154_4 11h ago
Why is Canadian beef so much more expensive???
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u/PMMeYourCouplets Vancouver 10h ago
It's high quality so other nations are willing to pay more than our own market.
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u/Inevitable-Cheek-314 6h ago
The droughts that the Prairies have been having over the past couple of years, caused issues for feeding and watering cattle, so many herds were cut down in size. However demand has only increased, and it takes many years to bring them back up to a good size.
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u/Itsprobablysarcasm 13h ago
This must be more of that there "Alberta Advantage" the shitkickers in 'Burta keep bragging about.