Meat price explained

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. ^[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

Notes and References

1. Deborah Gewertz, Frederick Errington, Cheap Meat: Flap Food Nations in the Pacific Islands, University of California Press, 2010.
2. http://www.dw.de/the-high-cost-of-cheap-meat/a-16513500 Deutsche Welle, Agriculture – The high cost of cheap meat, January, 11 2013
3. [Meat Atlas|Meat Atlas 2014 – Facts and figures about the animals we eat]
4. https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2013/sep/04/why-cheap-meat-costs-earth The Guardian, Why cheap meat costs the Earth, 4 September 2013
5. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/12/10/animal-cruelty-is-the-price_n_4418270.html Huffington Post / RollingStone, Animal Cruelty Is The Price We Pay For Cheap Meat, 12/10/2013
6. http://www.abc.net.au/environment/articles/2013/06/21/3786161.htm ABC Australia, How much is cheap meat really costing us?, 21 Jun 2013
7. https://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/03/opinion/03fri3.html?_r=0 The New York Times, The High Cost of Cheap Meat, June 2 2011
8. http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2010-09-24/health/ct-met-cheap-protein--20100923_1_factory-farms-cafos-salmonella-outbreak 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. https://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/jan/29/farmageddon-cost-cheap-meat-lymbery-review The Guardian, Farmageddon: The True Cost of Cheap Meat by Philip Lymbery – review, 31 January 2014