{"id":258211,"date":"2026-01-22T16:02:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T16:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/258211\/"},"modified":"2026-01-22T16:02:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T16:02:08","slug":"the-indicator-from-planet-money-npr-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/258211\/","title":{"rendered":"The Indicator from Planet Money : NPR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1769097728_464_.jpeg\" data-template=\"https:\/\/npr.brightspotcdn.com\/dims3\/default\/strip\/false\/crop\/3377x1900+0+0\/resize\/{width}\/quality\/{quality}\/format\/{format}\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F36%2F91%2Faeda986a4749b63f7d0313edba5f%2F11b3d71d-9fd7-4abc-8ff3-e5b5ee41d909.jpg\" class=\"img\" alt=\"Beef is sold at a store in Annapolis, Maryland, on April 4, 2025.\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n                Beef is sold at a store in Annapolis, Maryland, on April 4, 2025.<\/p>\n<p>                    Jim Watson\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>                hide caption\n            <\/p>\n<p>            toggle caption<\/p>\n<p>        Jim Watson\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>Beef is back on top. Well, at least on top of Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.\u2019s new food pyramid, unveiled alongside updated national dietary guidelines. Red meat really never left the great American menu. But how\u2019d it climb all the way up there?<\/p>\n<p>On today\u2019s show, America\u2019s storied love affair with beef. And how big business and government have long influenced what winds up on our plates.<\/p>\n<p>Related episodes:\u00a0<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2025\/09\/15\/nx-s1-5539846\/why-beef-prices-are-so-high\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Why beef prices are so high<\/a><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2025\/11\/24\/nx-s1-5616521\/whos-buying-all-the-beef\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Who\u2019s buying all the beef?<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For sponsor-free episodes of The Indicator from Planet Money, subscribe to Planet Money+ via Apple Podcasts or at <a href=\"http:\/\/plus.npr.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">plus.npr.org<\/a>. Fact-checking by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/people\/1268825622\/sierra-juarez\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Sierra Juarez<\/a>. Music by <a href=\"https:\/\/dropelectric.bandcamp.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Drop Electric<\/a>. Find us: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@planetmoney\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">TikTok<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/planetmoney\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Instagram<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/planetmoney\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Facebook<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/newsletter\/money\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Newsletter<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.tiktok.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Beef is sold at a store in Annapolis, Maryland, on April 4, 2025. Jim Watson\/Getty Images hide caption&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":258212,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[103,61,60,446],"class_list":{"0":"post-258211","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nutrition","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-nutrition"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=258211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258211\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/258212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}