Meatonomics

How the Rigged Economics of Meat and Dairy Make You Consume Too Much—and How to Eat Better, Live Longer, and Spend Smarter

De: David Robinson Simon

Narrado por: Christopher Lane

Few consumers are aware of the economic forces behind the production of meat, fish, eggs, and dairy. Yet omnivore and herbivore alike, the forces of meatonomics affect us in many ways. Most importantly, we've lost the ability to decide for ourselves what - and how much - to eat. Those decisions are made for us by animal food producers who control our buying choices with artificially-low prices, misleading messaging, and heavy control over legislation and regulation. Learn how and why they do it and how you can respond.

Written in a clear and accessible style, Meatonomics provides vital insight into how the economics of animal food production influence our spending, eating, health, prosperity, and longevity. Meatonomics is the first audiobook to add up the huge "externalized" costs that the animal food system imposes on taxpayers, animals and the environment, and it finds these costs total about $414 billion yearly. With yearly retail sales of around $250 billion, that means that for every $1 of product they sell, meat and dairy producers impose almost $2 in hidden costs on the rest of us. But if producers were forced to internalize these costs, a $4 Big Mac would cost about $11.

©2014 David Robinson Simon (P)2014 Brilliance Audio, all rights reserved.

Best and complete account of animal agriculture in USA

This book shows all aspects of how the USA economy has unfortunately taken the turn for the worst by being so dependent on an extremely cruel yet unnecessary industry. I was thoroughly impressed to know how easy it will be to correct the wrongs if there's political willpower and public desire to learn and respect the truth. I never thought I would enjoy a book on economics this much. Thanks to the author and narrator for such wonderful gift to the world.

Eggcellent

This book is a wonderful piece of work that will cause you to reconsider the way you look at the food system.

great book

this book has a lot of good information. it covered many interesting facets of the meat and fish industry too. not just economics but cruelty, environmental, and health reasons we should quit eating meat. a very informational and entertaining book.

Please read

One of the most important books I’ve read in the last 20 years. Destroys our illusions about what meat and dairy actually cost us.

new vegan

if you are a vegan looking to stay the course, this will help.it has everything you need!