General   (General discussion, talk about anything.)

Meat is just too expensive for most folk to buy, and for various reasons, from the price of feedstuffs and energy costs to the farmers, the regularity system, the costs to a farmer of rearing beef cattle, pork and fowl is such that the end cost to the consumer in the butchers shop and supermarket, is more than most consumers are prepared to pay, hence the collapse of demand for meat and meat stuffs, butchers just cannot make it pay