America has no use for hides, so leather prices plunge
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Re: America has no use for hides, so leather prices plunge
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#3Americans are eating more beef than they have in a decade? That's really surprising; seems everyone I talk to - not just vegetarians - have started looking at beef as something to be indulged in only on occasion. I assume the climate impact is the main reason.
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#4I saw a pile of leather pieces outside a home, on the street, near Seattle with a sign that said "free leather". I'm not sure why anyone would want it, but it looked sad...like someone had died and they were clearing the home.
Re: America has no use for hides, so leather prices plunge
#5Americans are eating more beef than they have in a decade? That's really surprising; seems everyone I talk to - not just vegetarians - have started looking at beef as something to be indulged in only on occasion. I assume the climate impact is the main reason.
Congratulations on living in a bubble.
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#6Americans are eating more beef than they have in a decade? That's really surprising; seems everyone I talk to - not just vegetarians - have started looking at beef as something to be indulged in only on occasion. I assume the climate impact is the main reason.
https://www.nationalchickencouncil.org/about-the-industry/st...
So beef consumption is up slightly since 2015, but is still far below its peak in 1976
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#7“According to Hidenet, a leather markets research firm, a hide from a branded cow went for as little as $4 the week of July 15, down from as much as $81 just five years ago.”
Wait, what? Consumer trends have shifted so radically in 5 years that even with a white hot economy leather prices have dropped by 20x?
Re: America has no use for hides, so leather prices plunge
#8In World of Warcraft, there isn't any use for hides either. You can only cure them, but then there's nothing to do with the cured hides. The vendor price is static and set by Blizzard, though, so the prices don't change.
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Re: America has no use for hides, so leather prices plunge
#9Americans are eating more beef than they have in a decade? That's really surprising; seems everyone I talk to - not just vegetarians - have started looking at beef as something to be indulged in only on occasion. I assume the climate impact is the main reason.
https://www.nationalchickencouncil.org/about-the-industry/st... So beef consumption is up slightly since 2015, but is still far below its peak in 1976
This is per capita. It would make more sense to get total numbers in this context.
Re: America has no use for hides, so leather prices plunge
#10Americans are eating more beef than they have in a decade? That's really surprising; seems everyone I talk to - not just vegetarians - have started looking at beef as something to be indulged in only on occasion. I assume the climate impact is the main reason.
Huge swaths of America still see meat as an every meal thing ( myself included), and beef is a large part of that.