Meat price
The meat price refers to the price of meat.
Inexpensive meats
Inexpensive meat or cheap meat include e.g. fatty cuts of lamb or mutton.[1]
Factors influencing the price of meat
Factors influencing the price of meat include supply and demand, subsidies,[2] hidden costs,[3] taxes, quotas or non-material costs ("moral cost") of meat production. Non-material costs can be related to issues such as animal welfare (e.g. treatment of animals, over-breeding).[4][5][6] Hidden costs of meat production can be related to the environmental impact of meat production and to the effect on human health (such as resistant antibiotics).[7] Critics of the meat industry often point to these aspects as a problem.[8]
See also
- Livestock price
- Intensive animal farming
- Organic agriculture
- Local food
- Factory farming divestment
- Food vs. feed
- Fodder
- Wagyu
- Slow food
- Draft animal: multi-role animals
- Meat analogue
- Meat-free days
Bibliography
- Lymbery, Philip. Farmageddon: The True Cost of Cheap Meat, Bloomsbury Publishing, 2014. ISBN 1408846446[9]
Further reading
- Should meat be a luxury food ?
- Understanding Markets for Grass-Fed Beef: Consumer Taste, Price, and Purchase Preferences
- Eat less meat, of better quality: don’t do it with sadness. Do it with joy!
- Rethinking agriculture report
References
- ^ Deborah Gewertz, Frederick Errington, Cheap Meat: Flap Food Nations in the Pacific Islands, University of California Press, 2010. ISBN 0520260937
- ^ Deutsche Welle, Agriculture – The high cost of cheap meat, January, 11 2013
- ^ Meat Atlas 2014 – Facts and figures about the animals we eat, chapter: The hidden cost of steak, page 20, download Meat Atlas as pdf
- ^ The Guardian, Why cheap meat costs the Earth, 4 September 2013
- ^ Huffington Post / RollingStone, Animal Cruelty Is The Price We Pay For Cheap Meat, 12/10/2013
- ^ ABC Australia, How much is cheap meat really costing us?, 21 Jun 2013
- ^ The New York Times, The High Cost of Cheap Meat, June 2 2011
- ^ Chicago tribune, The costs of cheap meat – Critics of factory farms say we pay a high price for low-cost food, September 24, 2010
- ^ The Guardian, Farmageddon: The True Cost of Cheap Meat by Philip Lymbery – review, 31 January 2014
