{"id":28017,"date":"2021-10-02T13:52:58","date_gmt":"2021-10-02T13:52:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/?p=28017"},"modified":"2021-10-02T13:53:08","modified_gmt":"2021-10-02T13:53:08","slug":"biden-v-big-meat-can-the-us-tackle-rising-beef-prices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/2021\/10\/02\/biden-v-big-meat-can-the-us-tackle-rising-beef-prices\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden v Big Meat: Can the US tackle rising beef prices?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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It is a typically bustling day in “Little India”, a part of Queens in New York City that many South Asian immigrants call home. But things are much quieter at the Al Noor Meat Market, a local halal butchers on 73rd Street.<\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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It’s not Covid keeping shoppers away, but the price of meat, which has risen sharply across the US lately.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Shakeel Anjum, 36, a butcher at the shop, says the wholesale cost of goat meat has climbed from around $8 to $10 a pound, while beef is up from $5 to $6.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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“When meat is expensive, people eat less,” he says, adding that the shop has put up its own prices to cope. “Business is very slow.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It is a typically bustling day in “Little India”, a part of Queens in New York City that many South Asian immigrants call home. But things are much quieter at the Al Noor Meat Market, a local halal butchers on 73rd Street. It’s not Covid keeping shoppers away, but the price of meat, which has risen sharply across the US lately. Shakeel Anjum, 36, a butcher at the shop, says the wholesale cost of goat meat has climbed from around $8 to $10 a pound, while beef is up from<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":28018,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28017"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28017"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28017\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28019,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28017\/revisions\/28019"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}