[Sca-cooks] buying meat was vegetarian

[Phlip]

Ene bichizh ogsen baina shuu...

> Well, yes, they are... prices generally go up at that time of the year.
> But I believe that Phlip is thinking that there may be artificial
> shortages/price increases. Given the state of the market that she
> describes, that may well be the result even with no other artificial
> controls.
>
> -- Jadwiga Zajaczkowa

Yes, that's exactly what I'm thinking. I know perfectly well that there are
seasonal variations- now, just as in the MA, farmers don't want to pay for
the fodder to winter their stock over, so fall is still the time of year
when prices will drop somewhat, as more stock goes to the sale yards because
people are unloading. Also, unlessplaced in controlled brreding situations,
cattle, for example, will breed in the late summer- early fall in order to
calve in spring (9 month gestation period)- in fact most species time their
breeding seasons for birthing in spring.

But seasonal variations are not what I'm talking about. Livestock/meat
prices seem to be artificially low, even lower than we'd expect with this
recession we're dealing with. It's true across the board with animal
products- dairy farmers are still getting the same (roughly) $1.00 per
gallon for milk that they got back when we were paying $1.50 per gallon, and
conversely vegetable prices seem (comparatively) awfully high. I'm still
wincing over the $1.50 @ I paid for artichokes the other day, but I got them
because I know Margali really loves them.

Phlip

 If it walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, it is probably not a
cat.

Never a horse that cain't be rode,
And never a rider who cain't be throwed....