Meatonomics: How the Rigged Economics of Meat and Dairy Make You Consume Too Much—and How to Eat Better, Live Longer, and Spend Smarter
Written by David Robinson Simon
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About this audiobook
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.
David Robinson Simon
David Robinson Simon is a lawyer and advocate for sustainable consumption. He works as general counsel for a healthcare company and serves on the board of the APRL Fund, a non-profit dedicated to protecting animals. David received his B.A. from U.C. Berkeley and his J.D. from the University of Southern California. He is also the author of New Millennium Law Dictionary, a full-length legal dictionary. He lives in Southern California with his partner, artist Tania Marie, and their rabbit, tortoise, and two cats.
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Reviews for Meatonomics
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5A must read, well researched, well written and so informative
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Everyone must read/listen to this book. It is an eye opener!!
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Ah, what a book. To read that I subsidized the animal cruelty industry, I mean factory farming industry, when I was working and paying taxes, despite being vegetarian, and then vegan, for the last 6 years, is infuriating.
Simon proposes a Meat Tax to be paid on any animal products, to pay for the externalized costs of animal agriculture. Externalized costs are what meat producers shift onto humans and animals and the planet. It could work, but what makes me despondent is that the author is preaching to the choir. Only people who already care about animals and health and the planet will read this book. So? Here's a hint: don't have babies; you'll condemn them to growing up on a depleted planet.