are hit with major delays at the nation s a airports, a lot of pain at pump and sky-high groce ifly bills. that has a lot of americans asking this july 4th weekend, when is freedom from these challenges coming? we re tracking all of it with alexis mcadams at missouri s laguardia international airport new york s, kelly to grady and stew leonard jr. from his supermarket in norwalk, connecticut. happy fourth, everyone. hope you re dealing with some of the headaches but all of the patriotic positives that comes from this special weekend. i m neil cavuto. let s get right to it with alexis mcadams at new york s laguardia airport with how the crowds are handling the pressure. reporter: hi, neil. that s right, yeah, there s a lot of pressure and people worried if their flight s going to be delay or canceled, but after we ve had so many air travel delays, people are not surprised if hair flights are canceled or delayed. take a look, this is at jetblue area where people are trying
right now. you know, we have not raised our prices that much, you know? i just asked our meat buyer this morning, how much has our meat gone up? he said probably about 5% this fourth of july versus last. so there are some bright spots out there, and i think people want to get out and celebrate for the fourth right now. neil: how do they pivot then? how do you recommend they pith? i m just afraid the nation might go individual vegetarian, and that would be awful. [laughter] if how are they moving around the different cuts of meat, the choices where it s gotten pretty pricey? well, neil, you know, you definitely could see that if you re planning on certaining some gourmet burgers it s really easy to go could be to a different burger and some chicken even though chicken s come up a little bit in price this year. so you can alter what you re going to serve.
appropriation s bill. i was contacted by the meat buyer in the south, in florida who had 2.3 million hispanics down there that would eat it every day if they could get it. many ethnic groups. tucker: right, america is always distinct we don t eat it and the french do. it is more than a century kind of point of pride, a bragging point. you eat horses and we don t. does it put us at the level of the french if we do it? that is it kind of a total disnomer or whatever you want to put that. over 50 percent of the world s country eat horse meat every day. the whole european union. you will find more horse meat recipes than any other meat from
union and they are on average a thousand pound animal. you start ethanizing the one 50,000 horses a year, you are talking about millions of pounds of toxic waste. tucker: it is a question of disposing and who would eat it? well, we have quite a market actually. in 2011, when the rider s came off of the appropriation says bill. i was advocating for it. and i was contacted by the tongun community and a meat buyer in the south in florida who had 2.3 million hispanics who would eat it every day if they could get it. many ethnic groups. tucker: america is distinct in that we don t eat it and the french do. and it has been a more than