If beef and animal production is so expensive, why is it relatively cheap on the market?!

If beef and animal production is so expensive, why is it relatively cheap on the market?

hamburgers are cheap, most meat is relatively cheap, but the environmental people say that it is much more expensive to produce. How does it stay in business if this is true? what's goin on?

6 days ago
Why aren't things priced according to how much resources are used by the food or product? It would seem like a really good idea going towards reducing polution, and saving on world resources of course.

6 days ago
ryan roboto, you're probably right, there are ways to eat inexpensively without eating meats etc., but I'm more talking about the vast resources that meat production uses, (far more than using the direct food of the animals they are eating) It doesn't seem to be reflecting the price of meats that we see on the market.

Meat is an unsustainable price model, thats all you need to know. It is propped up by government subsiby ( of which i get a chunk for my arable farm ).

i know, i'm in the middle of it. Farmers around me are falling apart because of the price pressure that meat-eaters force on the industry.

Guess who suffers ?

Do you think its the shareholders of slaughter houses, or the CEO of MCDs, or the supermarket owners ?

Nop, the only place to cut costs is animal welfare and husbandry.

The "ecomomies of scale" is wrong. No matter which way you cut it ( ha ! ) the meat industry is currently unsustainable at consumer prices without subsidy.

We ahve pet cows and sheep and they take up many acres which could be used to feed many people if the world so chose. The water feed and land they require is disproportianately high to the meat they would provide.