Do subsidies make meat much cheaper? - by Hannah Ritchie

A little, but not much. Certainly not enough to make them cheaper than meat substitutes.

Last week, Bruce Friedrich, President of The Good Food Institute, published his new book Meat: How the Next Agricultural Revolution Will Transform Humanity’s Favorite Food—and Our Future. If you’re interested in the environmental impacts of our current food system and want to dig into the opportunities for meat-like products without the animals (and their impacts), I really recommend it. In it, he touches on one question I haven’t seen a particularly good answer to: Do meat and dairy subsidies make them much cheaper? Bruce thinks the answer is no. It reduces the price a little, but not…

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