>Without all the government subsidies, a pound of ground beef would be closer to $30-$40 today instead of the $8-$10/lb it is now

Source? That seems implausibly high.

Using your $38B/year subsidy figure gets us $112/year in subsidies per American. There's no way you can get $30 unsubsidized price from that unless you think the average American only eats beef once a week.

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CalRobert an hour ago | parent [-]

… do they eat more?

I would have thought once a week is high.

Though median could differ from average. 12% of Americans eat half the beef

https://sph.tulane.edu/how-mere-12-americans-eat-half-nation...

	▲	Jensson 13 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Average American eat around 60 pounds a year, typically you eat less than a full pound when you eat so yeah they probably eat more than once per week. https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/per-capita-meat-usa Given the $112 subsidies per year above, that would add $2 per pound of beef, that would slightly raise the price not balloon it to 30-40 as poster claimed. So he was bullshitting.