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
Dog meat consumption in South Korea statements by the local government involving plans to remove the dog meat vendors. On November 21, 2018, South Korea closed the country's main dog slaughterhouse, known as Taepyeong-dong. The slaughterhouse was located in Seongnam. The Seongnam city council, which voted in 2013 to close the slaughterhouse, will turn the area into a community park. The primary dog breed raised for meat is a non-specific landrace commonly named as "Nureongi" (누렁이), or "Hwanggu" (황구). Nureongi are not the only type of dog currently slaughtered for their meat in South Korea. In 2015, "The Korea Observer" reported that many different pet breeds