meat prices (was re: peta problems (was re: SC - Florilegium -Furs and OT))

[Cheriti Watts]

The grocery store I frequent in Portland, I think that here the lamb price
is comparable or more expensive. However for pork loin and beef round steak
I routinely see much cheaper prices (sale?).  Round steak in bulk for
US$1.50/lb.  I think I just today bought a pork loin (Hormel boneless in a
bag) for around $1.50/lb (I'd have to go to the freezer to find out the
exact cut and $/lb).  I also got a picnic shoulder roast for US$.78/lb. Of
course it is close to Easter and this store seems to have really nice pork
sales around Easter....
For whole chickens, I occasionally see them on sale for that low of a price.
However, I don't know the normal price for whole chickens as I normally go
the lazy route and buy boneless skinless chicken breasts when the go on sale
for $1.99 or lower. I very seldom have the time to deal with whole chickens.
(sometimes I see legs or thighs that cheap).
I don't know how many cities/states Winco is in, but for everyone in
Portland, Oregon, they routinely have very good sales on boneless skinless
chicken breasts (family pack). Last time I bought, they were at $1.69/lb.
Also, their store brand individually frozen bag of -B/-S chicken breasts
normally runs just over $2/lb.  Granted, they're probably not locally grown,
and definitely not hormone free or anything like that, but when compared to
the $7/lb someone quoted a few weeks back....

Last week, a friend of mine was complaining about the price of meat going
up, but when I looked at the prices she was pointing out, it looked like
prices I was used to seeing on non-sale meat.

- -Cassea

Bear wrote:

At the moment, lamb is US$3.99/lb for leg, pork loin is running US$3/lb, and
beef is running US$2.60 for round steak in bulk.  Better cuts start at
US$3/lb and go up.  Chicken is the inexpensive meat at about US$.79/lb.  And
this is in a stock raising state.  Prices tend to be higher in other parts
of the US.