Higher prices are benefiting meatpackers like Tyson Foods Inc TSN.N, the largest U.S. meat processor by sales. Memes shared in WhatsApp chat groups lament how beef has become unaffordable, including jokes that inflation has pushed people instead to eat polenta - a wry dig at government food aid efforts during the pandemic. Shipping beef to importers like China is more profitable for countries such as Argentina and Brazil due to currency depreciation and weakening local demand, said Upali Galketi Aratchilage, the United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organization senior economist.