Where are you finding good quality ground beef for <$3.00/lb?

Good quality, to me, implies the animals were not mistreated, were fed a reasonable (preferably grain free) diet, the farm is sustainably ranching the animals it grows, etc.

I recently bought a whole beef from a local farmer, and it was organic, 100% grass fed, and it worked out to $7/lb. I'd be shocked to learn there was a waaay cheaper option out there.

sorry for the confusion. a frozen package containing just two 4 oz Beyond Burger patties cost us $6.00. i.e. we paid $3.00 for each one quarter pound Beyond Burger.

so, if you can find hamburger meat for less than $12 a pound, you're paying less than we paid for Beyond Burgers.

This would reverse overnight in the US if we redirected our agricultural subsidies.

You can buy pasture-raised / grass-fed ground beef from Australia, and US-raised ground bison, in US supermarkets for $9-10 per pound, so no, it wouldn't. Even for cheap corn- and soy-fed CAFO-raised meat, agricultural subsidies lower the cost by a negligeable fraction.

hmmm. my comment was down voted. i'm wondering if someone might be able to offer some explanatory notes about that. not sure what was offensive about it.