Where the elite meet to eat meat

What a coincidence. I had no sooner put down an August 31 Time Magazine article on "The High Price of Cheap Food" when I received an email from the nice people at Omaha Steaks offering me a one-day sale for--for example--four four-ounce filet mignon steaks marked down from the normal $56.99 to $19.99.
Suddenly the Time Magazine article should have been renamed "The High Price of High-Priced Food." It worked out to $20 a pound for four little pieces of meat.
There would be an additional charge for shipping to my home on the water in Hawaii, of $37.99.
That means the REGULAR cost of this meat for me would be $96 a pound.
Just to be fair, I calculated the same costs if I sent the meat to my son in Seattle. Then shipping would be only $13.99--but then it would still be costing me $34 a pound for a steak. Maybe I should just go to Safeway. Google tells me their filets are $8.99 a pound.
I did check the cost of organic filets from an outfit called Blackwing. They had a deal where I could buy 14 six ounce filets for $128.60 for 5.25 pounds. The shipping for that would be by UPS: $79.98 : UPS 2nd Day Air
$126.46 : UPS Next Day Air. So if I am willing to wait two days, it would be only $208 for 5.25 pounds of organic beef.
One message here is that organic meet from Blackwing basically costs no more than non-organic from Omaha.
The other message is that it is kind of obscene to be talking about spending $208 for some steaks when that is more money than some people in the world have to live on for more than five months.
Or maybe I should just eat a carrot.
In the hour or so I have spent writing about this, I could have been earning at McDonald's enough money to feed, clothe, shelter and provide medical treatment for someone in Central Africa for a week.