The United States federal government allocates a staggering $38 billion annually to prop up the meat and dairy industries. These subsidies significantly reduce the price of meat products, including hamburgers. Research from 2015 reveals that these subsidies slash the price of a pound of hamburger meat from $30 to the $5 we see today
Right, why is that not the case in other countries? If this were true, most of the world would be vegetarian
Most of the world does indeed eats little to no meat, especially red meat. In the EU, these kind of subsidies also exist.
Plenty of the rest of the world eats lot of meat. All of the Western world, all of south America.
Most isn’t the right word. In countries where the government doesn’t or can’t keep the cost is meat down, a lot of people don’t east meet daily as it’s more expensive than other food sources. Gigantic subsidies for meat and diary exist in the US, EU, China, Brasil,…