This is a YouTube video titled "Investing In Better Meat" containing a discussion from July 19, 2020, about meat consumption choices and the economics of meat production. The conversation features Ask AI Mark and another speaker named Doc, who talks about supporting local regenerative agriculture and the impact of subsidies on food prices.
We're keep hearing the meme eat less meat, but should we eat less better meat or should we just eat better meat?
Doc, that depends a little bit. Like people of means should buy the best meat that they can for a whole host of reasons. We're creating a more diversified economic base, like the middle of America that used to be built around the small family farm has disappeared. We have four food companies, two of them that are owned by foreign Governments for foreign entities that, you know, handle 85, 90% of our total food intake. So I think that folks of means should absolutely support local regenerative agriculture, pay that, that, that kind of affluence tax to be able to grease the engines of, of, you know, producing the locally necessary and the locally vital foods. Anywhere else in the world that you go, grass fed meat is cheaper than grain fed meat. This is entirely an artifact of the United and I don't want to get too out in the weeds, but global reserve currency gives us some leverage in trading, and then we have a really massive subsidies program that creates this artificial environment. A Twinkie should not be cheaper than an apple, period.