re: What happened with that beef shortage?

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Or, people had to start cooking more at home instead of going out to eat, and started realizing beef isn't cheap anymore, went on facebook and spread their sob story about beef being expensive, and idiots took it from there.

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Yep, it's a combination of all of the stuff noted already. It did start though with some media fear mongering stories and then I think around Memorial Day(or maybe earlier in the month) there were some awesome weather weekends and people were buying meat like crazy to grill. So year of course shelves were going to be empty.