Meatonomics (eBook)

How the Rigged Economics of Meat and Dairy Make You Consume Too Much―and How to Eat Better, Live Longer, and Spend Smarter (Men Birthday Gift, for Readers of Comfortably Unaware)

David Robinson Simon (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2013
320 Seiten
Turner Publishing Company (Verlag)
978-1-60925-861-0 (ISBN)

Infos

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.Meatonomicsis the first book 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.

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Stop Being Manipulated by the Animal Foods IndustryStop the meat industry from eating into your wallet.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. But with the help of sustainability advocate and author David Robinson Simon'sMeatonomics, we can come up with informed, lasting solutions.Improve your health, your lifeand the world.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 inMeatonomicscan 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.InMeatonomics, Dr. David Robinson Simon uses his excellent truth-finding skills, garnered from his expertise as a lawyer, to show you:How government marketing is influencing what we think of as healthy eatingJust how much of our money is being burnt through by the meat production industryWhat we can do to change ourselves and our country for the betterIf you were fascinated by sustainable food and healthy eating books likeProteinaholic,Eating Animals, orHow Not to Die, you'll be empowered to overcome the meat industry's manipulation withMeatonomics.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.9.2013
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Ernährung / Diät / Fasten
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften
• Themenwelt: Technik ► Umwelttechnik / Biotechnologie
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre
• Themenwelt: Weitere Fachgebiete ► Land- / Forstwirtschaft / Fischerei
• Schlagworte: animal food industry • china Study • Comfortably Unaware • Eating Animals • food industry • Government Subsidies • Health • healthy eating • how not to die • How to Eat • life changing food • life changing foods • live longer • meat • meat industry • meat product • meat products • plant based diet • Proteinaholic • sustainable consumption • Sustainable food • the china study • whole
• ISBN-10: 1-60925-861-4 / 1609258614
• ISBN-13: 978-1-60925-861-0 / 9781609258610