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

Author: David Robinson Simon

Narrator: David Robinson Simon

Unabridged: 9 hr

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 08/26/2014


Synopsis

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.

About 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.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Jessica on March 29, 2016

I won my copy from Goodreads Giveaways! Disclaimer: I am a lawyer so this methodical and analytic approach to addressing a global issue greatly appealed to me. This book has LITERALLY changed my life. In 3 weeks I have completely cut out meat and fish from my diet and have been weaning myself from da......more

Goodreads review by Nic on February 18, 2014

This is such an important book! My bookclub loved Meatonimics, it inspired a really great discussion for us. We all learned a lot about how our economy works in relation to animal products, and also about other things like the devastating environmental impact of fishing. Meatonomics tackles animal co......more

Goodreads review by Robin on December 26, 2013

Everyone should read this for a reality-check on how food choices and government policy are shaped by big industry and steps (individual and government-related) to address the screwed up system that has resulted in widespread acute and chronic disease among humans, antibiotic resistance, pollution o......more

Goodreads review by Kate on January 08, 2014

What a compelling argument for the huge economic cost, estimated at $414 billion, of Americans' high meat consumption! Eating this amount of meat--three times the world average--is made possible for Americans by huge government subsidies and the astonishing political clout of the meat industry, amon......more

Goodreads review by Trudy on June 27, 2014

Did you know that the number one thing you can do to go 'green' is to stop eating meat? I certainly didn't. This is not the regular rehash of arguments as to why we should all eat less meat, but an eye-opening analysis of how US govt practices subsidize the meat/dairy industry to the detriment of con......more