Blame it on Wal-Mart.
Maybe.
Ever notice their attitude of, "you can buy what we want to sell"?



It's widespread now.
Go to a chain grocery store.
Try to buy a cut up chicken. Pik of the chik, it used to be called.
Mom bought whole ones and cut them, cheaper that way.
Now, a whole one is more expensive, and the only way to get a whole one in a package.
Instead, you buy pieces by the pack.

It's faster, easier, cheaper to run a line doing it the current way.

Try to buy a bone in pork loin.
Can't. Butcher told me they dont sell.
Bullschidt. Every store around here ran them on sale at New Years. They were
everywhere. People bought their years supply of p-chops at $.99/lb.

About 3 years ago it suddenly stopped.

Demand?
Fudge no!

$4/lb for the tenderloin
$2/lb for the loin
$3-5/lb for the baby back ribs.

Current trends make breaking it down a lot more profitable.
There are those idiots that don't understand the benefit of having bone
in their chops, they make it possible. But they arent the driving force.

All this to say it's not just demand, it's also about profit margins.
And a modern race to the bottom on low quality/high volume.

Parents who say they have good kids..Usually don't!