Right. The next thing you know, they'll be blaming the Atkins diet for global warming!
Seriously...they don't think that recent drought and thinning of herds in the US combined with the current embargo on imports of beef from Canada have anything to do with the increase in prices? And 3 pounds more per capita/per year over the last decade is a "surge in demand"? Oh, brother!
Seriously...I don't eat any more beef now than I did before I went low carb. I tend to eat more chicken and pork because honestly it's cheaper and it was cheaper even before beef prices started to rise. Now, I can see some who have been religiously following the low fad diet and avoiding beef like it was the plague going a little binge happy on beef once they decide to take the low carb plunge, but the novelty wears off quickly.