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Bought 1 kilo of ground beef at the supermarket yesterday for €7.99. How much did it cost at the [Dorffleischer]?

You are cheap. Saw the pound at Aldi yesterday for €4.99, so €10 per kilo...on sale...

Bought 1 kilo of ground beef yesterday at the supermarket for €7.99. How much did it cost at the village butcher?

You’re cheap there. Saw it yesterday at Aldi for €4.99 per half kilo, so €10 per kilo... on sale...

I hardly dare to say it, but for a product that requires raising, slaughtering, and transporting a cow, including feed production and paying for the great work in, for example, slaughterhouses, it is still way too cheap.

Sorry.

But meat prices in Germany always give me a headache. Because I know what a farmer in direct marketing MUST charge, who lets the animals live dignified lives and to whom the mobile farm slaughterer comes to avoid the stressful transport to the slaughterhouse with the poor working conditions for the slaughter workers.

No ground beef costs less than €10 - 12/kg there, and that’s without a dealer’s margin in between.

That's also my opinion. I can ask at the checkout next time if I can pay 12€/kg because it's too cheap. And I don't have a [Dorffleischer] or [Biohof] here, maybe 30km away. Then we're back to the topic of economic viability...

I hardly dare to say it, but for a product for which a cow has to be raised, slaughtered, and transported, including feed production and payment for the great work in, for example, slaughterhouses, it is still way too cheap.

Of course, this can be discussed. The fact is that it was significantly cheaper not too long ago. It is also a fact that it is not always possible to buy the animal directly from the farm, especially not in the small portions that fit in an apartment. And unfortunately, it is also a fact that many "butchers" get their supply from large slaughterhouses but charge artisanal prices. For me, it is either directly from the farm or as cheap as possible. Everything else too often promotes the aforementioned cheating of the customer.

For me, it's either directly from the farm or as cheap as possible. Everything else too often promotes the customer deception mentioned earlier.

Well. You can definitely prefer a different type of husbandry for certain labels (not all) even in supermarkets. And the alternative you didn't mention is: Then just don't, or only rarely. Meat is not an indispensable food, but a product that is only not considered a luxury BECAUSE it is so cheap. But of course you are right that the "deception" you named exists. I would just draw a different conclusion from it than you ;-).