Looks like Roblaw’s at it again… robbing the working class to keep obscene profits rolling to the Parasite Class. And I bet the farmer who raised those turkeys get only a few dollars per.
Anyone who buys a turkey at that price point is a goddamned fool.
LOL. And they say eating plant-based is expensive 😂😂😂
They probably lose 2-3 Turkey’s for each one that makes it to market that is antibiotic free in the conditions they raise them in.
Fuck that shit. Guess turkey is off the menu… I’d rather do something else
I just bought a 14lb turkey at Metro for $20.
Butterball frozen turkeys are like 25% water, sugar, and salt. They’re nasty. That’s what I grew up on, And I thought they were the best of the best. One at Thanksgiving and another for Christmas! So great, plus the price is right, turkey is turkey, right?
My mother mocked me for buying something else one year, so I can understand why people would be shocked. The waited too long, they have no backup, they think that having meat is a requirement of a healthy meal…
But these birds aren’t worth the electricity used to freeze them.
They seem to be $2.50 a pound across Ontario at Independent (including the one in St Mary’s), $2 a pound at some other Loblaw stores, both of which are cheaper than Walmart at $3 a pound.
Maybe the uproar made them change their price.
That said, I’m pretty sure my dad paid $80 for our 20lb turkey last year. I only remember cause he was bitching about it and I had to ask him if that was expensive lol.
Dollar per kg conversion for those numbers, this is /Canada on .ca after all:
- The Turkey the dad bought last year: $8.82/kg
- The Butterball in the picture may be as cheap as $7.45/kg, or as expensive as $9.11/kg
- Walmart $6.61/kg
- across Ontario at Independent $5.51/kg
- other Loblaw stores are $4.40/kg
Were all the prices you saw the same brand?
I don’t eat animals, so I don’t really have a solid price in my head for what it should cost. I do remember as a child that Butterballs were more expensive, so we never had one.
I bought a Butterball yesterday at my local YIG and it was $5.49/kg
Not the best price I have ever seen, but not terrible.
Yes, all the exact same product as the one discussed in the article.
(Except my dad’s last year, I have no clue what he bought.)
Oh nooo, now paying someone to take an animal’s life is expensive. Oh, the horror!
I think even if you don’t eat meat there’s reason to be mad. Cause they killed a bunch of animals, and put it at prices where people can’t afford to buy and thus might have even more waste. So a triple whammy of corporate greed, excessive animal farming, and food waste!
On the plus side maybe people will be forced to buy more ethically farmed turkeys this year, or reduce meat intake all together, cause its looking like these are more expensive then any locally grown Turkeys I’ve seen.
For additional context on my take: I do eat meat, despite being morally against factory farming. So, I try to reduce my intake of unethically farmed food and try to use as much of the animal as possible.
People will see the high price, decide not to get a turkey, and make roast potatoes or something instead. Hopefully something vegan, like roast potatoes.
I like it better when the dead animal rots on the shelves. Because it means that the company that killed an animal made a financial loss, and next quarter they might decide to reduce their stock, since people aren’t buying. If people buy the dead animal, then the animal killers make money and they keep killing animals. If it becomes more profitable to kill half the turkeys and sell at double the price, then I’m glad. That’s half as many dead turkeys. That’s a good thing. I hope the economy is going that way. And I hope people realise due to this economic trend that they don’t actually need to eat meat every day.
I don’t see a triple whammy, it’s a nothing burger to me.
- If it’s a greedy markup on top of a product that I’m against, I don’t care
- Excessive animal farming… exists already regardless of price passed down to consumers
- We don’t any evidence these turkeys are going to waste at higher rates than before yet so this is just speculation
So personally I don’t see any reason for me to be mad, though I empathize that folks who care about having turkey have their reasons.
So you would rather they slaughter an excessive amount of animals that will then be entirely discarded, then to actually go to people to eat?
Yes. I would rather the animals’ deaths be entirely pointless and bring zero revenue to the animal killers.
“Killing animals is wrong! Unless you’re pointlessly killing them so someone doesn’t profit from it!”
Dude are you alright, cause wow, what a fucked up and incredibly disgusting view.
Oh the horror everyone became vegetarian and the prices rose, and the quality became shite.
It has expanded Tofurky too. the small tofu ball is now $27…Personally I would have skipped it and made something else, but my wife felt Thankagiving is not thanksgiving without Tofurki LOL
I love the one comment on the article calling $82 normal
About $9 a kilo,$4 a pound, yes that’s about right. Lately chicken has been $11 a kilo.
Yeah, $11/kg is not a terrible price for a chicken at the grocery store.