Kottke points me to this article by David Chang:
The machinery that's pumped so much meat into our lives over the last half century was never built to last, and now it's breaking down big-time. Feed is more expensive. Gasoline is more expensive. Milk, rice, butter, corn -- it's all going through the roof. And for the foreseeable future, it's not coming back down.
This article available online at:
http://www.theatlantic.com/daily-dish/archive/2008/09/peak-meat/211024/
