[tw04]

> The only reason beef is so popular is because it's available.

Wait, what? Beef is popular because it tastes good. You don’t pay $50+ for a chicken breast, salmon filet, or pork chop. People consume beef because it tastes good. It’s “available” because people like it. If deer or bison sold for more than the price per lbs of beef, the cattle industry would collapse and be replaced overnight. But it doesn't, because people don't like the taste as much.

[jedimastert]

$20 for a steak, maybe. I would argue that $50 or even $100+ for a steak has far more to do with the scarcity (fillet mignon is, after all, a very small part of the animal) and definitely the status involved.

Also, bison absolutely cost more per pound than beef. Beef sells because it's cheap, not because it's expensive.

[emj]

What taste good is just perception, I certainly pay a lot for good salmon filet, about the same as a good steak actually.

[tw04]

No offense, but you're either getting ripped off on the salmon or ordering a cut of steak that's the absolute lowest grade possible. Even decent steak is roughly double the price of salmon per oz. Something like waygu is 10x.

And yes, taste is subjective and the numbers make it pretty obvious that the majority of the population subjectively prefers beef.

[emj]

Perception is not taste, I'm talking about your idea that "meat has to be better than salmon" that is you perception and it forms how you think meat tastes vs. salmon.