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

1. Deborah Gewertz, Frederick Errington, Cheap Meat: Flap Food Nations in the Pacific Islands, University of California Press, 2010. ISBN 0520260937
2. Deutsche Welle, Agriculture – The high cost of cheap meat, January, 11 2013
3. Meat Atlas 2014 – Facts and figures about the animals we eat, chapter: The hidden cost of steak, page 20, download Meat Atlas as pdf
4. The Guardian, Why cheap meat costs the Earth, 4 September 2013
5. Huffington Post / RollingStone, Animal Cruelty Is The Price We Pay For Cheap Meat, 12/10/2013
6. ABC Australia, How much is cheap meat really costing us?, 21 Jun 2013
7. The New York Times, The High Cost of Cheap Meat, June 2 2011
8. Chicago tribune, The costs of cheap meat – Critics of factory farms say we pay a high price for low-cost food, September 24, 2010
9. The Guardian, Farmageddon: The True Cost of Cheap Meat by Philip Lymbery – review, 31 January 2014