>>22015550
Pigs are fed literal garbage in America

>>22015560
>Pigs are fed literal garbage in America
so are the people

>>22015560
that is not correct, and hasn't been for at least 40 years.

the only people who feed pigs slop are maybe third worlders who come here and have some small farm.

>>22015550
Supposedly lobbyists have all kinds of subsidies and protectionist policies established that the prices aren’t really free market determined … like apparently chicken is as expensive as beef in the rest of the world and only cheap here because of that

>>22015550
pigs are cheaper to produce and there isnt as much demand since plebs and schizos think theyre low quality and/or don't know how to cook them. cherish it while it lasts because some mindbroken corporate influencer on social media is going to make pork content sooner or later and jack up the price.

>>22015572
>like apparently chicken is as expensive as beef in the rest of the world and only cheap here because of that
There are subsidies, but if that's true then it probably has other reasons. Chickens grow way too fast compared to cows for them to end up being the same price. Pigs also grow much faster than cows and need less resources overall which is why pork is so much cheaper.

Cows were often kept mainly for milk and eating beef was almost always a luxury or necessity compared to pretty much any other meat.

It's more that beef supply is kept artificially low by a whole host of groups who want to keep beef prices high. All other answers here are wrong.

>>22015564
Kek, what a nice lil goyim. In America and Canada, farmers are allowed to feed pigs food waste such as:

Vegetable Waste: Vegetable scraps, peels, cores, and leaves, such as carrots, potatoes (must be cooked), cabbage, beetroot, pumpkins, lettuce, squash, and cucumbers.

Fruit Waste: Spoiled or leftover fruit, including apples, bananas, pears, peaches, and berries.

Bakery and Grains: Stale or old bread, donuts, pasta, rice, cereal, crackers, and cakes.

Dairy Products: Milk and milk by-products of local origin.

Brewery Waste: Spent grains from local breweries are good for their diet.

Garden Waste: Grass clippings (from untreated lawns), weeds (like dandelions), and clover.

>>22015650
Oh no they're feeding pigs...
>check notes
FOOD AND PLANT MATTER

>>22015650
>potatoes (must be cooked)
HOLY SHIT

>>22015562
seed oil bros... is he mocking us

>>22015686
*ROTTED FOOD AND PLANT MATTER
there, fixed it for you and I even added your faggoty all caps writing style.

>>22015837
wait til you hear what mushrooms eat

>>22015839
pork, swine and pigs are unclean animals. keep spinning up some mental gymnastics to make you feel better about eating a disgusting animal, I don't care, stupid filthy infidel.

Pig meat isn't as healthful as cow meat because they're monogast, but you do what you need to

>>22015840
go back to the oven

>>22015840
>pork, swine and pigs are unclean animals
why did you use three different words for the same animal

>>22015854
shut up, why do you care.

You want to eat an animal that eats its own shit?

>>22015560
pigs were fed horse manure since antiquity, as food was always scarce.

>>22015650
>AI nonsense post

kill yourself.

>>22015840
and in the end the euromuslim reveals itself. seriously, when are we rangebanning that entire continent?

>>22015550
Pork is cheaper to produce as pigs require less space, less medical care and have a much less specialized diet than cows, and the demand for pork is lower as multiple religions prohibit its consumption. That said, I do think there could be money in a pork burger restaurant, use mostly cheap fatty cuts with a little beef for lean, flavor and texture and some breadcrumbs or similar filler, basically a modern revamp of the Depression burger.

>>22015840
Pigs are way cleaner than pisslamists tho

>>22015840
>pork, swine and pigs
Kek

>>22015578
If it makes the beef prices go down i would welcome it

>>22015901
>Seethes about Europe out of nowhere
Rent free

>>22015908
a christpig would say that, yes

>>22015904
iberico pork burgers taste better than beef burgers but they're also more expensive

any retard actually complaining that they feed pigs slopshit has never seen the slopshit they feed cattle
common co-products in cattle feed blends include chicken shit (has caused multiple avian flu outbreaks) cereal residue (the shit that gets REJECTED from mass produced bakeries and sausage lines) and flushed waste water from processing plants (they use this to save a fraction of a cent instead of using normal water to produce the feed)
all this and more is openly disclosed and listed on the USDA and CFIA feed ingredients tables
>>22015550
we bred out all the objectively good qualities from pork in the last century after a marketing push to make it the "next chicken" by stripping it of all fat and flavor, which is why it largely has neither outside of the belly and select cuts. this is also, unsurprisingly, why heritage breeds like black iberians, berkshies and duroc all are comparably priced to beef. get a local butcher or ask around for local boutique hog farmers because you will never see these at a big retailer

>>22015550
It's better, actually. Enjoy the discount and stop talking about it.

>>22015837
It's still all plant matter bro. It's healthier than feeding them plastic or processed pellets.
Are you retarded or something?

>>22016308
Wait until he finds out what they feed to plants.

>>22015650
I don't see anything wrong with any food source that you posted. We aren't feeding them crude oil. In fact it's good that pigs eat scraps, it's holistic. Thanks based piggers

>>22015840
>>22015860
>Infidel
Your schizo desert pedo shaman religion doesn't measure up to the facts about farming, buddy. Imagine thinking 2000 year old food and farming habits are still relevant in an industrialized country kek

>>22015650
>>22015688
w-what happens if you dont cook them

People don't know how to cook pork and are brainwashed by kosher and halal morons. Don't give away our secrets

>>22016335
breaks down the starch content, solanine is toxic to most livestock
it's a catch-all rule in a lot of countries, but you technically don't need to do this for ruminants depending on the volume (solanine is still toxic to them, they can just handle a lot more)

>>22015585
Cows take about 7.5 kg of feed to produce 1 kg of meat
Pigs need about 3 kg
Anyone blaming the jews/pajeets/trannies for expensive beef needs to have his head examined, preferably using invasive, destructive testing methodologies, no anesthesia, and in a publicly humiliating way

>>22016378
i'm not entirely anti-livestock production but those numbers are outdated and rudimentary at best and straight up wrong at worst
those old FCR figures are very intentionally factoring in using extremely low-nutrition bulk feed blends and include bone weight to the cuts of meat, and are usually heavily skewed higher by the inclusion of feedlot figures (which can place grain conversions alone at nearly 20kg per kg produced, see eishel et al 2014)
when you specify actual meat (no bone) and quality feed the gap actually closes quite a surprising amount, and there are cases of specialty operations getting a 3:1 FCR on cattle too, and while this is more expensive to improve feed and genetics that much, it's not a direct correlation (in other words, reducing the FCR by 2.5x from 7.5-3 is not 2.5x more expensive)
a significant premium has to be factored in strictly on the basis that people, generally, prefer beef. how much of that is due to taste, marketing and culturally influenced perception, or otherwise, is a question for anthropologists and economists, not my area of expertise

Expensive = good? Cheap = bad?
Poor heuristic, OP. Products can stay the same but change in price, and that doesn't somehow affect their quality.

>>22015840
>pork, swine and pigs
Kek, solid bait

>>22016305
Only good post itt

>>22016407
remember when oxtail wasn't $30/lb
at least cuts of [REDACTED] are still really cheap

>>22016411
>>22016411
Mhm, and oxtail got better for OP because the price went up. It's a good thing for him.
I too enjoy [REDACTED]. I also like [REDACTED] in the pressure cooker. Good choices, anon.

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Reminder that the vast population of North American buffalo was nearly hunted to extinction explicitly to keep the price of beef high.

I've actually seen "Ground Bork" offered at local supermarkets a few times, a combination of ground beef and pork. I don't think they noted the percentages. I'm kind of surprised that fast food chains haven't offered a "100% REAL HAM-burger!" made of ground pork since it's so much cheaper than beef.

>>22017144
ground beef/pork mix has been common in other countries for a long time but i just started seeing it in US stores recently. fine by me though because it's half the price and useful for things like meatloaf, meatballs, and my weeby hamburgsteaky

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>>22015550
Pigs grow faster and there are more of them that can be crammed into a given farm. Beef was never a real competitor in terms of production.

>>22015560
pork tastes fucking disgusting here in Germoney, too
it either a) tastes like nothing or b) stinks like literal shit
I guess the muslims were onto something

>>22017846
Ahmed stop posting on 4chan and get back to the kebabs

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>>22015840
Your prophet was a schizophrenic warlord that plagiarized Christianity and Judaism. His coming was not foretold by anything, and he died of a severed aorta after saying God should sever his aorta if he is not a true prophet.

>>22018026
bro felt like kevin o leary posting this

>>22018031
>understanding Econ 101 concepts is something only billionaire businessmen can understand
You must be American

>>22018068
>>22018031

>>22018095
>no argument
80 IQ American confirmed

>>22015650
so the pigs are being fed high quality food. thank you for proving my point.

>>22015840
only when they are free range because they pick up parasites. modern factory farmed pigs are not fed anything that can give them parasites. they are perfectly clean to eat.

>>22015840
IDK I've seen some halal butcher shops in arabic countries. they aren't clean at all.

raw pork smells like shit to me. Literally. I point it out to people and they go "haha yeah that's pork"

>>22016411
oxtails? I can remember when brisket was $.79 per lbs. only about 15 years ago it was $1.79 then everyone found out about smoking and the price went through the roof.

>>22017144
>Reminder that the vast population of North American buffalo was nearly hunted to extinction explicitly to keep the price of beef high.

no it wasn't it was to kill off the indians source of food and no other reason.

>>22018243
no it doesn't.

Unironically it's jews and muslims who can't eat pork, and the legions of browns who think pigs are "dirty animals." Due to the superior races being pushed out from government agendas, there's less demand for pork, simple as

America used to be a country where even the poor could afford to eat beef every day. now we're having to stoop down to only eating pork maybe twice a week like Eurotrash. what the fuck happened

>>22018553
answering your question will result in a ban for "racism" sorry

>>22018577
no do go on incel. i'm very curious as to why you think a certain minority is so powerful in this country that they are able to drastically effect meat prices across the country.

>>22018617
wasn't talking about that group

it would be "affect" btw, good job outting yourself

>>22015550
pigs are slaughter age at 6 months, beef cows take a year and a half. in other words, in the time it takes for one set of cows to be ready for slaughter you can produce three times as many hogs

>>22015550
scarcity, beef population is at it's lowest since the 50's and takes years to grow.

>>22015550
>the fuck? is pork really that much worse?
It's a question of supply and demand.

Obama declared a "war on the West" and tried to destroy ranchers. He had BLM block the ranchers from their grazing leases for eight solid years. The U.S. cattle herd size steadily shrank from 2009 onward, all thanks to Obama.

Trump fixed a little of it for two and a half years, but the Great WuFlu Panic did a number on supply chains and, because ranchers were forced to slaughter a shitload of cows without even being able to bring them to market, that hurt ranchers again. Then Biden went right back to fucking over ranchers again for another four years.

So, yeah, the number of cows being grown has gotten slashed hugely for the last 17 years. And people still want their steaks. And you're surprised that the prices have gone up?

That's not even bringing in the price-fixing that has been going on for two decades or more among the big-four "beef processors" (slaughterhouses), where they pay absolutely nothing to ranchers for their cattle, then rape consumers with high beef prices. The Trump admin has started an antitrust investigation against them, which will take a year or more, and will probably result in one or two of them being forcibly broken up.

It's going to take a concerted effort by multiple different sections of government to (1) smash the meatpacking industry's cartel, (2) encourage ranchers to trust that the government won't keep fucking them over, and (3) allow ranchers to rebuild herd sizes. Only after all of that happens will beef be cheap again -- and if stupid assholes vote in the Democrats again, it's absofuckinglutely guaranteed that the Democrats will run around screeching about snail darters and cow farts and demand that the cow herds be gassed and that everyone eat ze bugs (because cockroaches are a great source of protein!).

>>22015564
It kind of is correct. Lots of hog farms feed pigs expired grocery products. Like if Wal-Mart oopsies and overorders donuts and they dry out on the shelves, those can sometimes get fed to pigs. Only happens if there are nearby hog farms that cut deals with grocery chains and restaurants, though.

>>22017144
bison fat does not flavor the meat as well as beef
in fact bison burgers are quite revoltingly lean even when the mix says 70 30

I live in st louis and pork ribs are huge around here
one thing I can't stand about pork is the boar taint lottery
once in a while you get a rack of spareribs that smells like sweaty socks in a flooded basement
thats boar taint

>>22015550
beef comes from poorly managed family farms that are constantly in debt trying to raise big individually expensive animals that take years to realize profit from.

pig and chicken come from efficient vertically integrated corporate hyperfarms

>>22018234
high quality ROTTED food yeah. I've personally dumped truck loads of moldy baked goods in pig farms across the province (Quebec). I've seen it all. Plastic bags mixed in with what is essentially compost and they fucking LOVE it.

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>>22018620
>it doesn't know that effect can be used as a verb
good job outing yourself as a stinky ESL that doesn't even live in america. now i can safely dismiss whatever you have to say about us.

>>22019290
effect is a cause

affect is to cause

post your hand and i'll send you 2k in btc, you won't

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btw here's another dictionary entry (which you also can't refute) showing effect can be used as a verb. sorry saar but you do not know english as well as a native speaker does.

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>>22015650
>implying pigs wouldn't eat the same thing if out in the wild

Pigs eat everything.

>>22019321
>>22019325
madams

>>22019346
not sure what you're going for with this reply here rajesh but make sure you take this L and and learn from it. don't proceed to lecture others on the english language when (You) barely know it yourself.

>>22015550
Pigs breed way faster than cattle and their omnivorous diet makes them easier to feed and demand less space. The laws of logistics makes swine more affordable.

>>22019433
>deleted
jej

>>22015904
>That said, I do think there could be money in a pork burger restaurant
that's called a bbq joint

>>22015550
No. As always, if your culture has made food of said meat type for a long time, you have ways of properly cooking it so it's very tasty. If not, your culture can't cook with it and malds and seethes as a result.

Also, prime steak is $15/lb or more depending on cut. You can get lower marbled steak for a fraction of the cost. Just saying.

Pork is more like chicken though, there really isn't much of a grading system where you get higher marbled stuff for way more like beef. Europe does the fancy expensive pork way better.

>>22015840
Wait till this guy hears about all the worms n shit fish have, and that doesn't stop fish from being $10-15/lb depending on the source/type. He'll explode from the contradiction!

>>22019846
I only buy meat from costco and they don't have anything less than prime

I don't trust grocery stores

Marinated skirt steak is fucking 14.99 a pound at the Mexican butcher this shit is insane