Meatonomics: How the Rigged Economics of Meat and Dairy Make You Consume Too Much And How to Eat Better, Live Longer, and Spend Smarter
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Overview
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
- Title: 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
- Publisher: Conari Press
- Print Publication Date: 2022
- Logos Release Date: 2024
- Pages: 322
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Ebook
- ISBNs: 9781609258610, 9781573246200, 1573246204, 1609258614
- Resource ID: LLS:9781609258610
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2025-04-21T10:08:22Z
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 nonprofit 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 English legal dictionary. He lives in Southern California with his partner, artist Tania Marie, and their rabbit, tortoise, and two cats.