Beef Industry Direction

The Good News - The Beef Industry Will Never Completely Fail
It is honestly to vast and inconceivable to believe that people will completely stop eating beef.
The Bad News - It will become so regulated and downsized that BEEF will become a "Delicacy"
A delicacy that will be raised under strict regulations & micro managed by government agencies.
It will become so expensive to make that only the highest end of the high end restaurants and richest persons would be able to afford.
Herds will be reduced down to "Family Sized Farms" of 50 head of less that are raised in small lush pastures. Each of these "Family Sized Farms" will have their own processing equipment on site and will process cattle 4 times a year. The cattle will grow while eating a special diet of grass and select grains with very limited use of medicines. Cattle that become sick will be destroyed immediately to make sure that no other animals will become infected.
Each animal will be worth the same because the price can go no higher and there are no other markets available to sell cattle at. Exports to foreign countries will consist of small packages of pre-cut beef destined for the highest end restaurants and customers.

This will not happen overnight. It will be a slow and painful death that will take about 150 to 200 years of bitter fighting and arguing for our industry to come to this point. A few of the "Cause Lawyers" and "Savvy Business Men" (Peta, HSUS, R-Calf, John Marvel & Western Watersheds) will become very rich by continuing to create "Drama" and "Conflict" over short sited & narrow minded issues that plague our industry today.
But for the most part, the typical middle to large sized, western states cattle ranches of yore, will no longer exist. They will be gobbled up by government entities, the "Savvy Business Men" & "Cause Lawyers" and will be placed in conservation easements and government parks. And in the middle of the best parts of these ranches, where the grass and water is the best, will be these little "Family Sized Farms" that the "Savvy Business Men" and "Cause Lawyers" will own and operate.
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