He subsequently claimed in a second post that something was “fishy” because “the price of Boxed Beef has gone up” even while cattle prices were stable or falling.

Hmm, so the input price to meat packing unchanged, but the cost of the final product has gone up? Could it be the cost of labor in meat packing has rising sharply or the available workforce for meat packing has been decimated recently?

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