Cheap meat their meat industries. The OECD estimates the total "producer support" in OECD countries for 2012 as follows: 18bn USD for beef and veal, 7.3bn USD for pigmeat, 6.5bn USD for poultry and 1bn USD for sheepmeat (provisional numbers). 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). Cheap meat Cheap meat is a term used to describe relatively inexpensive meat (e.g. fatty cuts of lamb or mutton) or to indicate that the consumer price of meat does not include the overall costs of
Horse meat horse meat ("paardenrookvlees") is sold as sliced meat and eaten on bread. "Zuurvlees", a southern Dutch stew, is made with horse meat as main ingredient. There are also beef-based variants. Horse meat is also used in sausages ("paardenworst" and "frikandel"), fried fast food snacks and ready-to-eat soups. In Norway, horse meat is commonly used in cured meats, such as "vossakorv" and "svartpølse", and less commonly as steak, "hestebiff". In pre-Christian Norway, horse was seen as an expensive animal. To eat a horse was to show one had great wealth, and to sacrifice a horse to the gods was seen as