quickly. if i change them daily, they get upset. i like may bacon in the morning. everything tastes good with bacon. reporter: for those who can t stomach the rising costs, the alternative in america is chicken. poultry farmers say they expect 2014 sales to sizzle. so, mika, there is also politics involved in all of this. in all likelihood we re not going to see the price of beef going down any time soon. because we have the asian market. and as you know, the president will be traveling to asia soon. right now the tariffs on beef heading out of the united states is about 38.5%. the cattle industry here is hoping to get it down to 10% which for american consumers means you ll see beef prices stay up for awhile if they re successful there. that s going to hit people really hard. all right. you re on a quarter horse. and are you a rider? can you make it happen? i am.
cookouts. let s go to kerry sanders joining us from okeechobee, florida. this is going to really impact the people moving forward. okay, first of all because joe s a floridian mika let s see if he knows this. i don t think most people know it. but florida is actually integral to the cattle industry in the united states. why? well, the momma cows here give birth to the baby cows. and those calves are then shipped out of florida. they go to the midwest. they go to texas. they go to california. and as a result of the drought, they have not been shipping those cavs to fatten them up to send them to market. that s a big part that drought is a big part of why the price of beef has gone up. reporter: barbecue season is just around the corner in washington, d.c. where juan manuel rubio and his friends never miss a chance to get together for a cookout. this is the main the structure, the backbone of my
instead of bring your guns, crowd fund it. listen every restaurant that we go to we benefit from a very robust cattle industry. you can get an expensive steak in new york, mcdonald s. that meat has to come from anywhere. maybe he should just practice voter intimidation rights or run guns to mexico, or be an illegal immigrant. maybe they would leave him alone. this goes back to the issue of indian land. he is not right about being the on the land longer than the government. that land is federal land. i think the family was there before even blm
out in the mud, out amongst people that are being affected every day right now and make this thing immediate, make it the kind of television where you start getting involved in people s lives. and i don t mean the lives of the celebrities because they re the investigative reporters, if you will, but the lives of the people that they re going and seeing. people in plainview, texas, out after job because the drought collapsed the cattle industry and their meat packing plant closed. things like that that are immediate. climate change is not only real. it s not a debate anymore, but it s happening and it s affecting people right now. it s that second point i think that s key which is the transformation i think we ve seen over the last three years, i would put it, from a problem we will have to encounter in the future, a problem that was talked about things that our children, our grandchildren will have to deal with to something we are living through right now, the front endage the series
out in the mud, out amongst people that are being affected every day right now and make this thing immediate, make it the kind of television where you start getting involved in people s lives. and i don t mean the lives of the celebrities because they re the investigative reporters, if you will, but the lives of the people that they re going and seeing. people in plainview, texas, out after job because the drought collapsed the cattle industry and their meat packing plant closed. things like that that are immediate. climate change is not only real. it s not a debate anymore, but it s happening and it s affecting people right now. it s that second point i think that s key which is the transformation i think we ve seen over the last three years, i would put it, from a problem we will have to encounter in the f future, a problem that was talked about about things that our children, our grandchildren will have to deal with to something we are living through right now, the front endage th