If you eat meat, this ONE IS FOR YOU, Some free advice... Over the next 6 to 12 months, if the Existential War of the Middle East keeps escalating, the price of meat is going to climb hard if not already, and I do not mean a few percent, I mean a serious jump. How? War hits oil first, and oil is behind the two costs that set the price of your steak. Diesel runs every tractor, every truck, every run from the farm to the slaughterhouse and from there to the shelf at your grocery store or your local butcher shop. Natural gas is what fertilizer is made from, and fertilizer is what grows the hay and the feed corn the cattle eat through winter and summer. Push diesel and fertilizer up at the same time and you have raised the cost of every single animal, from the ground up. That cost does not stay on the farm, it reaches you at the till and in your wallet within a few months. And this shock is not arriving into a normal market. The US cattle herd is ALREADY at its lowest level since 1951, around 86 million head, and beef is ALREADY at record prices before a single new shock hits. Ground beef is near $6 a pound and up double digits over the past year, with the herd this thin. Now stack a war-driven diesel and fertilizer shock on top of that. We have been here before. In 2022, when Russia invaded Ukraine, energy spiked, fertilizer roughly doubled, and global food prices hit the highest level ever recorded. Food follows energy, every time. My read is that in a sustained shock meat runs far past the double digits we already have, potentially 50% or more over the next year, IF the escalation holds and the input shock does not ease. So what do you do about it? You buy in bulk now, while it is ONLY "THIS" expensive, and you lock the price in. Depending on your family size, buy direct, portioned and frozen from a farmer or a butcher shop. 1. On your own or a couple, a QUARTER cow. 2. A family, a HALF. 3. A big household or several families together, a WHOLE animal. Go in with your brothers, sisters, cousins, parents, even your neighbours if you can talk them into it, split one animal and split the cost. All you need is a chest freezer and a butcher who will cut and pack it into meal-sized portions you draw down over the next 6 to 12 months. That alone usually saves you 20 to 30% against retail cuts TODAY, before you count what you dodge if the bigger move comes... Do it earlier rather than later, because this is about as cheap as meat is going to get over the next 12 months... Share this with someone who may find it useful. If you know, you know. 𝗦𝗜𝗚𝗡𝗔𝗟, 𝗡𝗢𝗧 𝗡𝗢𝗜𝗦𝗘!!