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 of dog meat is illegal, farmers are allowed to slaughter dogs for personal consumption. The favorite type of meat comes from a dog related to the Rottweiler and consumed as "Mostbröckli", a form of marinated meat. Animals are slaughtered by butchers and either shot or bludgeoned. In his 1979 book "Unmentionable Cuisine", Calvin Schwabe described a Swiss dog meat recipe "gedörrtes Hundefleisch" served as paper-thin slices, as well as smoked dog ham, "Hundeschinken", which is prepared by salting and drying raw dog meat. It is illegal in Switzerland to commercially produce food made from dog meat. Although in most states