Free markets? Meat subsidies are insane, as is consumption in the U.S. and a few other places
I like free markets. I wish we had them, but as far as meat is concerned, we don’t seem to.
Here is a chart of Subsidies for Meat Production From Industrialized Countries (OECD Members), Estimates for 2012, in Billions of Dollars. Can we end this corporate welfare?
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And here are Current Worldwide Annual Meat Consumption per capita. I didn’t realize the U.S. would stand out so much. I thought Brazil and Argentina ranked higher.
I may not eat meat, but I don’t see a problem with hunter gatherer cultures eating meat. We seem to be on a whole other scale, especially considering how much we factory farm.
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