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
Narrated by:
Christopher Lane

Unabridged Audiobook

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Book
2
Narrator
2
Release Date
August 2014
Duration
9 hours 2 minutes
Summary
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.
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Damon P.

The narrator was good and the book was an eye opener.

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Joseph Basralian

This is a lively, well-written and inspiring book by an author who clearly brings us his knowledge after reviewing hundreds of journal articles on the economics of the meat industry. Taxpayers prop-up this industry with billions of dollars of payments to help it advertise, often very misleadingly. This has helped cause Americans to eat about THREE TIMES the amount of meat as other countries, with such over-consumption bringing us higher rates deadly heart disease, obesity and cancer. At the same time, the U.S. has removed cruelty-to-animals limitations on farm animals, resulting in very troubling treatment of billions of animals that are part of our factory farming system. If animal welfare does not concern you, there is an excellent, cogent chapter on the costs to our land and water of cultivating so many animals. I did not fast-forward any of this right-sized nine-hour audio book. Kudos to the author and reader. Highly recommended!

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