Meatonomics

In this "provocative and persuasive work," the health advocate reveals the dirty economics of meat--an industry that's eating into your wallet (Publishers Weekly).   Few Americans are aware of the economic system that supports our country's supply of animal foods. Yet these forces affect us in a number of ways--none of them good. Though we only pay a few dollars per pound of meat at the grocery store, we pay far more in tax-fueled government...
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In this "provocative and persuasive work," the health advocate reveals the dirty economics of meat--an industry that's eating into your wallet (Publishers Weekly).
 
Few Americans are aware of the economic system that supports our country's supply of animal foods. Yet these forces affect us in a number of ways--none of them good. Though we only pay a few dollars per pound of meat at the grocery store, we pay far more in tax-fueled government subsidies--$38 billion more, to be exact. And subsidies are just one layer of meat's hidden cost. But in Meatonomics, lawyer and sustainability advocate David Robinson Simon offers a path toward lasting solutions.
 
Animal food producers maintain market dominance with artificially low prices, misleading PR, and an outsized influence over legislation. But counteracting these manipulations is easy--with the economic sanity of plant-based foods. In Meatonomics, Simon demonstrates:
 

• How government-funded marketing influences what we think of as healthy eating
• How much of our money is spent to prop up the meat industry
• How we can change our habits and our country for the better

 
"Spectacularly important." --John Robbins, author of The Food Revolution
 
"[A] well-researched, passionately written book." --Publishers Weekly