Cheap meat 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 industrial meat production. The term cheap meat is then either related to subsidies, to hidden costs or to 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). The term is used by critics of the meat industry. The meat industry is subsidized with billions of dollars by governments who support
Horse meat and onions added. In this case, it is called . "Basashi" is popular in some regions of Japan and is often served at "izakaya" bars. Fat, typically from the neck, is also found as "basashi", though it is white, not pink. Horse meat is also sometimes found on menus for "yakiniku" (a type of barbecue), where it is called or ; thin slices of raw horse meat are sometimes served wrapped in a shiso leaf. Kumamoto, Nagano, and Ōita are famous for "basashi", and it is common in the Tōhoku region, as well. Some types of canned "corned meat" in