Eating animals is eating into our wallets. Few Americans are aware of the realities of the economic system that supports our country's supply of animal foods. Yet these forces affect us in ways we can hardly imagine. Though we only fork over a few dollars per pound of meat products at the grocery store, we end up paying much more than that in tax dollar-fueled government subsidies. $38 billion more, to be exact. And that's just one layer of hidden costs.
More than our health is at stake. Animal food producers influence our buying choices with artificially low prices, misleading messages, and heavy legislation and regulation control. But learning how these forces work can help you improve both your personal life and the world in so many important ways. Life-changing foods like those in a plant-based diet will do more than just improve your waistline. The information in Meatonomics can help you save money, lose weight, live longer, boost your health, protect animals and the planet from abuse, and preserve rural communities worldwide.
Learn to make better, more informed decisions on what to buy and how to eat. Dr. David Robinson Simon is a lawyer and an advocate for sustainable consumption. In Meatonomics, he uses his excellent truth-finding skills to show you:
**How government marketing is influencing what we think of as healthy eating
**Just how much of our money is being burnt through by the meat production industry
**What we can do to change ourselves and our country for the better
Readers of sustainable food and healthy eating books like Comfortably Unaware, Whole, and The China Study will be astounded by the dark, hidden truth behind the meat industry, exposed in Meatonomics: How the Rigged Economics of Meat and Dairy Make You Consume Too Much―and How to Eat Better, Live Longer, and Spend Smarter.
"Meatonomics will grab you and not let you go. It's a critically important and absolutely fascinating and astonishing in-depth look into the devastating effects of an industry's economic take-over of our culture and our well-being. Dave Simon not only cogently and systematically exposes the many facets of cost externalization by the meat, dairy, egg, and fishing industries, but he also makes a com
Dr. Will Tuttle, Ph.D., author of The World Peace Diet
"Bringing cheap meat to the American table not only degrades the American palate, but it requires a series of corrupt bargains. David Robinson Simon exposes this corruption with impressive research, incisive prose, and the passion of a muckraker. The ultimate novelty of Simon's book is to portray our excessive consumption of animal products as a profound governmental failure, one abetted by corpor
James McWilliams, Ph.D., author of Just Food
"This assessment of the powerful animal food industry and the myriad government policies that support it is well researched and thought-provoking."
Kelsy Peterson, Library Journal September 15, 2013
