This is bad news for those of us that like to eat meat: Meat prices set to rise 10% in 2013

You can can meats as well.
I have ten pounds of canned bacon and 20 pounds of canned hamburger on my shelves right now.
Go to youtube and look it up.

Interesting. Never really thought of that.
YOu can also salt some meats. Smoke meats...

10 percent! Anyone living on the edge right now will be in serious trouble. Pin this.

Fellow poor people, don't forget to use your fat too: When you cook that bacon, save the lard. Use the fat from the baked chicken for gravy, and so on. That makes the staples we'll be eating a lot of, like rice and potatoes, much better.

Time to cook like your Grandmother used to. Less waste.

More people will have to rely on Govt. handouts, food banks, low quality foods, crime etc... terrible cycle.

Meat is a drug. Expect the meat junkies to commit crimes to get their stuff.

10 percent? Where do they get these figures? Just this past year chicken (on sale) went from 69 cents per lb to 99 cents per lb. where I live. Those are the whole chickens that you have to cut up yourself. It's 1.49/lb when not on sale. A chicken is 8 or 9 $.

Bacon has gone up from 3.00 to 4.50 a lb. (the one in the butcher's counter), other prepackaged is now 6-7 dollars for 12 to 16 oz. pkgs.

We got our freezer running and when I have money and things are on sale, I grab it and put it in there.

For those of you that are afraid of the electricity bills on freezers, mine only went up about 6 dollars per mo. And my freezer is old. The newer ones should use less energy that the one I have.

long pork prices should not rise though

I with you. Fill freezer when prices are right. I also have a fair bit of game in there right now (few rabbits, couple pheasents, deer roast).