Meat prices are rising again, and the head meat buyer for Stew Leonard's Supermarket in New York says the pandemic is to blame.
Now, a New York supermarket owner and cattle rancher in Texas agree there’s a way to cut meat costs by cutting out the middlemen.
"What we’ve been able to do, is we buy direct from the farm, ranchers and producers," Stew Leonard Jr. said. "The demand is still there. People are still eating.""When COVID really started hitting, my sales at least doubled," Law said.But it could change the producer-consumer chain long term. On Monday, the Biden administration announced it will pledge $1 billion to help the meat processing industry with labor shortage issues and provide better prices for consumers.
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