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 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