Average Price of Ground Beef Hits All-Time High
August 19, 2014 – 11:10 AM
By Ali Meyer
(CNSNews.com) – The average price for all types of ground beef per pound hit its all-time high — $3.884 per pound — in the United States in July, according to data released today by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS).
That was up from $3.880 per pound in June. A year ago, in July 2013, the average price for a pound of ground beef was $3.459 per pound. Since then, the average price for a pound of ground beef has gone up 42.1 cents–or about 12 percent.
Five years ago, in July 2009, the average price for a pound of ground beef was $2.147, according to the BLS. In those five years, the average price has climbed by $1.737 per pound–or almost 81 percent.
https://cnsnews.com/news/article/ali-meyer/average-price-ground-beef-hits-all-time-high
Too much beef is not healthy anyway.
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… unless you are the “do as I say, not as I do” first lady.
(whose burgers we are paying for btw)