Costco Wholesale has
In-Warehouse Hot Buy Deals listed below valid for
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- 18-Oz Blueberries $4.99 (No Limit)
- Kirkland Signature Rotisserie Chicken Enchilada Bake $3 Off (Per Package, No Limit)
- USDA Prime Beef Loin New York Steak $12.99 Off (Per lb, No Limit)
- Kirkland Signature Caramel Tres Leche Bar Cake $12.99 ($2 Off, No Limit)
- 12-Count Island Way Fruit Sorbet in Assorted Shells $10.99 ($4 Off, Limit 2)
- 11.5-Oz Kinder's Organic Woodfired Garlic Seasoning $4.89 ($2 Off, No Limit)
- 20-Oz Keto Friendly Cinnamon Toast Cereal $7.49 ($2.50 Off, Limit 6)
- Dyson Pure Cool Purifying Fan (TP4A) $100 Off (Limit 2)
- 13-Piece Circulon Premier Professional Hard Anodized Cookware Set $179.99 ($50 Off, Limit 5)
- Ninja Foodi 6-in-1 10-Quart XL 2-Basket Air Fryer w/ DualZone Technology $40 Off (Limit 2)
- & More
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Also without getting into the abhorrent nature of factory farming you've got methane production from ruminants and increased risk of heart disease, cancer, and other health issues from meat consumption.
Also without getting into the abhorrent nature of factory farming you've got methane production from ruminants and increased risk of heart disease, cancer, and other health issues from meat consumption.
I have a risk of muscle gains from proper protein ingestion. And avoiding malnutrition. And happy taste buds.
But once you start belittling and calling someone half-brained, well, gtfo my friend. Seriously. I don't have the patience for that. Nor do I want to curb meat eating, when it gives me a complete amino profile, is dense in protein, iron, B12 and creatine etc, and leads to higher and better regulated testosterone levels, and so on and so forth. I love pairing it with leafy greens and other items, I'm a high-performance nutrition nut to max my gym and running activities. And meat is part of that. I will enjoy my prime steak. You can enjoy not having your prime steak. Good day to you.
But once you start belittling and calling someone half-brained, well, gtfo my friend. Seriously. I don't have the patience for that. Nor do I want to curb meat eating, when it gives me a complete amino profile, is dense in protein, iron, B12 and creatine etc, and leads to higher and better regulated testosterone levels, and so on and so forth. I love pairing it with leafy greens and other items, I'm a high-performance nutrition nut to max my gym and running activities. And meat is part of that. I will enjoy my prime steak. You can enjoy not having your prime steak. Good day to you.
Also without getting into the abhorrent nature of factory farming you've got methane production from ruminants and increased risk of heart disease, cancer, and other health issues from meat consumption.
yawn, you'll never cancel burgers hippy
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Most interestingly, I found that the ground Wagyu which started at $17.99/3lbs at the beginning of the pandemic, is now at $15.99. Other ground meats have been staying the same as well.
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It all goes back to the Great Depression. It and the Dust Bowl [wikipedia.org] resulted in widespread crop and farm failures. For the first time in history, the country wasn't producing enough food to feed everyone. The government vowed never to let that happen again, and implemented several reforms to how crops (mostly corn) are grown in the U.S. You may have heard of some of these, and wondered why the hell we do it.
- The government guarantees it will buy crops at a certain price. This price is deliberately set higher than the market price. The higher price means farms produce more food than the country actually needs. The government then sells this food to supermarkets and such at a loss at market price (making this an agricultural subsidy).
- Some farmers are paid to not plant crops. This prevents them from selling their farm land to developers to turn into condos and housing developments, thus keeping their farms "on call". If farms elsewhere in the country happen to suffer crop failures due to natural disaster, blight (disease), or pestilence (animals), these reserve farms can immediately be fired up and crops planted there.
Both of these work to assure that the U.S. will always be able to produce enough food to feed everyone (distribution is another matter). But because the first policy results in a disconnect between market sell and buy prices, it results in constant overproduction. You're basically setting production high enough so that it's adequate in a worst-case year. But that means in a regular year production is too high. Every year when there isn't some sort of disaster, the U.S. produces a lot more food than it actually needs. The question then becomes, what do we do with all this extra food?- Some of it becomes foreign aid for countries with a shortage of food.
- Some of the corn gets converted into high fructose corn syrup, so that the U.S. isn't as dependent on imported cane sugar. (Contrary to conspiracy theories, HFCS has about the same ratio of fructose and glucose as apples. So if you believe HFCS is bad for you, then you must also believe apples are bad for you. It's just called "high fructose" because it contains more fructose than regular corn syrup. It's only bad because Americans eat way too much of it, which would also happen even if we were using sucrose.)
- In the 1970s after the Arab Oil Embargo, someone got the bright idea to convert some of it to ethanol which we could use as a substitute for gasoline.
- But the bulk of it is used as animal feed for livestock, since Americans love meat.
Anyway, the key here is that this food is excess food which has already been produced. Not giving away foreign aid, not producing HFCS, not making ethanol*, and not feeding cattle won't give us back the land and water used to produce those crops. They're a sunk cost - the resources needed to produce those crops have already been consumed. You can't un-consume them. Your only choices are to use them in the uses I've listed (or come up with new ones), or let the food rot in silos where they become food for rats.So stopping meat consumption (in the U.S.) won't result in a huge reduction in land, energy, and water use. All it will do is result in a bunch more excess grains and corn left over each year. We'd have to figure out a new use for it, or burn it, or the rat population will explode. None of which will reduce land, energy, or water use.
*(This was why corn ethanol was originally made. And why it made sense to make it even though (like meat production), it's a net energy loss. Because the cost to grow the corn was a sunk cost, you're going to lose that energy anyway. Might as well use it to produce ethanol (or meat) rather than produce nothing. Unfortunately, since then, the corn lobby has gotten Congress to pass a program where corn is grown for the specific purpose of producing ethanol. In that case, the cost to grow the corn is not a sunk cos, and all the costs and efficiencies remain relevant. It's a bad program because corn ethanol ends up costing us more energy to produce, than it gives back in the form of gasoline. From the numbers I've seen, only cane sugar and sugar beets have enough energy density to convert to ethanol at an energy gain.)
It all goes back to the Great Depression. It and the Dust Bowl [wikipedia.org] resulted in widespread crop and farm failures. For the first time in history, the country wasn't producing enough food to feed everyone. The government vowed never to let that happen again, and implemented several reforms to how crops (mostly corn) are grown in the U.S. You may have heard of some of these, and wondered why the hell we do it.
- The government guarantees it will buy crops at a certain price. This price is deliberately set higher than the market price. The higher price means farms produce more food than the country actually needs. The government then sells this food to supermarkets and such at a loss at market price (making this an agricultural subsidy).
- Some farmers are paid to not plant crops. This prevents them from selling their farm land to developers to turn into condos and housing developments, thus keeping their farms "on call". If farms elsewhere in the country happen to suffer crop failures due to natural disaster, blight (disease), or pestilence (animals), these reserve farms can immediately be fired up and crops planted there.
Both of these work to assure that the U.S. will always be able to produce enough food to feed everyone (distribution is another matter). But because the first policy results in a disconnect between market sell and buy prices, it results in constant overproduction. You're basically setting production high enough so that it's adequate in a worst-case year. But that means in a regular year production is too high. Every year when there isn't some sort of disaster, the U.S. produces a lot more food than it actually needs. The question then becomes, what do we do with all this extra food?- Some of it becomes foreign aid for countries with a shortage of food.
- Some of the corn gets converted into high fructose corn syrup, so that the U.S. isn't as dependent on imported cane sugar. (Contrary to conspiracy theories, HFCS has about the same ratio of fructose and glucose as apples. So if you believe HFCS is bad for you, then you must also believe apples are bad for you. It's just called "high fructose" because it contains more fructose than regular corn syrup. It's only bad because Americans eat way too much of it, which would also happen even if we were using sucrose.)
- In the 1970s after the Arab Oil Embargo, someone got the bright idea to convert some of it to ethanol which we could use as a substitute for gasoline.
- But the bulk of it is used as animal feed for livestock, since Americans love meat.
Anyway, the key here is that this food is excess food which has already been produced. Not giving away foreign aid, not producing HFCS, not making ethanol*, and not feeding cattle won't give us back the land and water used to produce those crops. They're a sunk cost - the resources needed to produce those crops have already been consumed. You can't un-consume them. Your only choices are to use them in the uses I've listed (or come up with new ones), or let the food rot in silos where they become food for rats.So stopping meat consumption (in the U.S.) won't result in a huge reduction in land, energy, and water use. All it will do is result in a bunch more excess grains and corn left over each year. We'd have to figure out a new use for it, or burn it, or the rat population will explode. None of which will reduce land, energy, or water use.
*(This was why corn ethanol was originally made. And why it made sense to make it even though (like meat production), it's a net energy loss. Because the cost to grow the corn was a sunk cost, you're going to lose that energy anyway. Might as well use it to produce ethanol (or meat) rather than produce nothing. Unfortunately, since then, the corn lobby has gotten Congress to pass a program where corn is grown for the specific purpose of producing ethanol. In that case, the cost to grow the corn is not a sunk cos, and all the costs and efficiencies remain relevant. It's a bad program because corn ethanol ends up costing us more energy to produce, than it gives back in the form of gasoline. From the numbers I've seen, only cane sugar and sugar beets have enough energy density to convert to ethanol at an energy gain.)
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The fallow land is to substitute for farms which are put out of production for an extended period of time. e.g. If there's another dust bowl (layer of topsoil dries up and gets blown away) which puts farms out of service for several years, we can activate the reserve farms and continue to grow food uninterrupted.
So they're not really interchangeable. The only way I can think of to reduce the amount of overproduction is to figure out ways to store food for longer. If we could stockpile several years worth of grain, then there wouldn't be a need to overproduce as much of it each year. But that introduces other health risks (fungus, rat droppings, etc) - people prefer fresh food