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The meat price refers to the
price A price is the (usually not negative) quantity of payment or compensation expected, required, or given by one party to another in return for goods or services. In some situations, especially when the product is a service rather than a ph ...
of
meat Meat is animal Tissue (biology), tissue, often muscle, that is eaten as food. Humans have hunted and farmed other animals for meat since prehistory. The Neolithic Revolution allowed the domestication of vertebrates, including chickens, sheep, ...
.


Inexpensive meats

Inexpensive
meat Meat is animal Tissue (biology), tissue, often muscle, that is eaten as food. Humans have hunted and farmed other animals for meat since prehistory. The Neolithic Revolution allowed the domestication of vertebrates, including chickens, sheep, ...
or cheap meat include e.g. fatty cuts of lamb or
mutton Lamb and mutton, collectively sheep meat (or sheepmeat) is one of the most common meats around the world, taken from the domestic sheep, ''Ovis aries'', and generally divided into lamb, from sheep in their first year, hogget, from sheep in thei ...
.


Factors influencing the price of meat

Factors influencing the price of meat include supply and demand,
subsidies A subsidy, subvention or government incentive is a type of government expenditure for individuals and households, as well as businesses with the aim of stabilizing the economy. It ensures that individuals and households are viable by having acce ...
,
hidden costs In Microeconomics, microeconomic theory, the opportunity cost of a choice is the value (economics), value of the best alternative forgone where, given limited resources, a choice needs to be made between several Mutual exclusivity, mutually exclu ...
,
taxes A tax is a mandatory financial charge or levy imposed on an individual or legal entity by a governmental organization to support government spending and public expenditures collectively or to regulate and reduce negative externalities. Tax co ...
, 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 impacts of animal agriculture vary because of the wide variety of agricultural practices employed around the world. Despite this, all agricultural practices have been found to have a variety of effects on the environment to som ...
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

* Livestock price *
Intensive animal farming Intensive animal farming, industrial livestock production, and macro-farms, also known as factory farming, is a type of intensive agriculture, specifically an approach to mass animal husbandry designed to maximize production while minimizing cos ...
*
Organic agriculture Organic farming, also known as organic agriculture or ecological farming or biological farming,Labelling, article 30 o''Regulation (EU) 2018/848 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 30 May 2024 on organic production and labelling of ...
*
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 Food system, system. Local food (or locavore) movements ...
* Factory farming divestment *
Food vs. feed Food vs. feed is a competition for resources between growing crops for human consumption and growing crops for animal feed. Competing resources includes: land, water sources, fertilizers, labor, and finances Part of the competition is the divis ...
*
Fodder Fodder (), also called provender (), is any agriculture, agricultural foodstuff used specifically to feed domesticated livestock, such as cattle, domestic rabbit, rabbits, sheep, horses, chickens and pigs. "Fodder" refers particularly to food ...
*
Wagyu Wagyu (, Hepburn romanization, Hepburn: ''wagyū'', ) is the collective name for the four principal List of Japanese cattle breeds, Japanese breeds of beef cattle. All wagyū cattle originate from early twentieth-century cross-breeding between ...
* Slow food *
Draft animal A working animal is an animal, usually domesticated, that is kept by humans and trained to perform tasks. Some are used for their physical strength (e.g. oxen and draft horses) or for transportation (e.g. riding horses and camels), while othe ...
: multi-role animals *
Meat analogue A meat alternative or meat substitute (also called plant-based meat, mock meat, or alternative protein), is a food product made from vegetarian or vegan ingredients, eaten as a replacement for meat. Meat alternatives typically approximate qual ...
* Meat-free days


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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