Meat price

The meat price refers to the price of meat.

Inexpensive meats
Inexpensive meat or cheap meat include e.g. fatty cuts of lamb or mutton.

Factors influencing the price of meat
Factors influencing the price of meat include supply and demand, subsidies, hidden costs, taxes, quotas or non-material costs ("moral cost") of meat production. Non-material costs can be related to issues such as animal welfare (e.g. treatment of animals, over-breeding). Hidden costs of meat production can be related to the environmental impact of meat production and to the effect on human health (such as resistant antibiotics). Critics of the meat industry often point to these aspects as a problem.