For once, a Guest with no name speaks sense.    I suppose it's the broken clock syndrome.

Nobody "has" to eat beef--especially in the "First 'World".    There are all sorts of health reasons not to, no compelling reason to do so, and plenty of alternatives.

Jan has been working on me for years (she's a vegetarian lurching towards veganism--I'll never get there), but I eat virtually no red meat anymore, haven't for years.   No loss.

If (actually when) the price goes up due to this-- or anything else-- just consider it as incentive to drop red meat. You will be healthier.

And remember the Skipper's song about the $5 fine.