The meat price refers to the
price
A price is the (usually not negative) quantity of payment or compensation given by one party to another in return for goods or services. In some situations, the price of production has a different name. If the product is a "good" in the ...
of
meat.
Inexpensive meats
Inexpensive
meat or cheap meat include e.g. fatty cuts of lamb or
mutton
Lamb, hogget, and mutton, generically sheep meat, are the meat of domestic sheep, ''Ovis aries''. A sheep in its first year is a lamb and its meat is also lamb. The meat from sheep in their second year is hogget. Older sheep meat is mutton. Gen ...
Factors influencing the price of meat
Factors influencing the price of meat include supply and demand,
subsidies
A subsidy or government incentive is a form of financial aid or support extended to an economic sector (business, or individual) generally with the aim of promoting economic and social policy. Although commonly extended from the government, the ter ...
,
hidden costs
In microeconomic theory, the opportunity cost of a particular activity is the value or benefit given up by engaging in that activity, relative to engaging in an alternative activity. More effective it means if you chose one activity (for exampl ...
,
taxes
A tax is a compulsory financial charge or some other type of levy imposed on a taxpayer (an individual or legal entity) by a governmental organization in order to fund government spending and various public expenditures (regional, local, o ...
, 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). Hidden costs of meat production can be related to the
environmental impact of meat production
The environmental impact of meat production varies because of the wide variety of agricultural practices employed around the world. All agricultural practices have been found to have a variety of effects on the environment. Some of the environmen ...
and to the effect on human health (such as
resistant antibiotics). Critics of the
meat industry
The meat industry are the people and companies engaged in modern industrialized livestock agriculture for the production, packing, preservation and marketing of meat (in contrast to dairy products, wool, etc.). In economics, the meat industry is ...
often point to these aspects as a problem.
See also
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Livestock price
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Intensive animal farming
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Organic agriculture
Organic farming, also known as ecological farming or biological farming,Labelling, article 30 o''Regulation (EU) 2018/848 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 30 May 2018 on organic production and labelling of organic products and re ...
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Local food
Local food is food that is produced within a short distance of where it is consumed, often accompanied by a social structure and supply chain different from the large-scale supermarket system.
Local food (or "locavore") movements aim to con ...
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Factory farming divestment
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Food vs. feed The food vs. feed competition is the competition for resources, such as land, between growing crops for human consumption and growing crops for animals.
The term ''food vs. feed competition'' is also used in the livestock industry to compare crop ...
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Fodder
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Wagyu
Wagyu ( ja, 和牛, Hepburn: ''wagyū'', ) is the collective name for the four principal Japanese breeds of beef cattle. All wagyū cattle derive from cross-breeding in the early twentieth century of native Japanese cattle with imported sto ...
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Slow food
Slow Food is an organization that promotes local food and traditional cooking. It was founded by Carlo Petrini in Italy in 1986 and has since spread worldwide. Promoted as an alternative to fast food, it strives to preserve traditional and re ...
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Draft animal: multi-role animals
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Meat analogue
A meat alternative or meat substitute (also called plant-based meat or fake meat, sometimes pejoratively) is a food product made from vegetarian or vegan ingredients, eaten as a replacement for meat. Meat alternatives typically approximate qua ...
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Meat-free days
Meat-free days or veggiedays are declared to discourage or prohibit the consumption of meat on certain days of the week. Mondays and Fridays are the most popular days. There are also movements encouraging people giving up meat on a weekly, monthl ...
Bibliography
* Lymbery, Philip. ''
Farmageddon: The True Cost of Cheap Meat'', Bloomsbury Publishing, 2014.
The Guardian, ''Farmageddon: The True Cost of Cheap Meat by Philip Lymbery – review'', 31 January 2014
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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
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