Quote Originally Posted by ClydeR View Post
The silver lining..

Some products may go down in price because of the tariffs. China usually buys about 30% of U.S. pork exports. Tariffs may cause a complete end to pork purchases by China and a decrease in pork purchases by other countries, forcing U.S. farmers to sell their products at a loss in the U.S. For that reason, you should immediately begin accumulating pork chop recipes. The farmers' loss will be your gain. You can bake them, grill them, fry them, smother them, barbecue them, even stuff them, if you're into that. Warning, though.. don't fall for any recipe for "ranch" pork chops.
Pork is and has been cheap historically. US pork loin at my "expensive" grocery story usually runs 5 4 ounce chops for $4 (or $0.80 each). My wife and I make that into two meals, usually accompanied by half a head of romaine lettuce ($2.50ea x .5 = $1.25) and a vinaigrette dressing we make ourselves (lets say $0.25) with cucumber ($1 each locally grown, we use half so $0.50) and maybe 5 or six baby tomato (most expensive @ $4.99 for a big box of baby tomatoes ~ $0.50) . So for roughly $3.30 each we get US grown pork and a healthy salad.

Beef... beef is expensive. We've been eating a lot of atlantic cod ($13ish a lb, usually buy 1/2 to 2/3rd a lb), grouper ($16ish a lb, we usually go with 6 ounce filets) and yellowfin tuna (think this was 13ish as well, we usually go with 1/4lb each on a salad) instead. Alternatives are all around, if beef is up, eat something else. Hopefully farmers turn to beef industry and drive down the costs of american beef.

Anyway, all that said, looking forward to some Gulf of America shrimp.