Make Meat Affordable Again

The affordability argument, in short

How to make meat affordable again — food prices, American ranchers, and feeding Nevada families.

This page is the policy summary. The full conversation with Casey Parker that this is drawn from lives at CPB and Parker on MMAA, and the written long-form version with the underlying figures is the article Make Meat Affordable Again: Food Prices, Family Budgets, and Nevada Policy.

The short version of the case: protein is where grocery inflation is felt most sharply by families on a fixed budget, the margin between what a rancher receives and what a shopper pays is wide, and the levers a state actually holds are local processing capacity, direct-sale rules, and not adding costs that land at the register — which is the connection to AB530 and fuel-tax authority.

Related: supporting local butchers and buying in bulk direct from the ranch.

More at The Carnivore Lawyer and affordability in Nevada.