wen u buy ground beef from non-local sources, and especially from far out of ur country, u get mostly into the bastardized meat with hormones, antibiotics, parasites, and pesticides in the grass those cows chew on; local beef price is the price of health; there is also the rabbit-hole of wrong circadian cycle in the non-local beef, as well as the natural-law understanding that participating in the slaughter of animals is inconsistent with freedom & prosperous life for all planet species, not only humans;