Sam Fenwick
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 16 Jul
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Somewhere in America tonight, someone's cooking burgers in the backyard.
And whoever it is has probably noticed something.
The beef cost more.
A lot more.
Beef and veal prices in America are up almost 13% on a year ago, stakes up nearly 15%.
Overall, inflation isn't even a third of that.
I'm Sam Fenwick and welcome to the documentary on the BBC World Service.
Today we're following the money from the rancher to the restaurant and the grocery store.
Why are prices so high and who's actually making money out of what you eat?
Pick up three things from a US meat counter this week.
A pack of mince, a steak and a burger.
All three cost much more than they did a year ago.
And behind every one of them is the same chain.
And it starts with a cow.
Now, there are fewer cows in America right now than at almost any point in living memory.
Because what you're seeing at the meat counter is really the end of a much longer chain.
There are four links, the rancher, the feedlot, that's basically a giant cattle fattening yard, the meatpacker and the restaurant that finally puts the burger on your plate.
And we're going to follow the money through all four and find out who's actually getting richer and who's getting squeezed.
Eric Groper is a fourth-generation cattle rancher in southwest South Dakota, a Native American who leases his land from the Oglala Sioux tribe.
His farm is remote, two and a half hours drive in each direction to the closest towns.
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