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
Buffalo meat calves are often referred to as buffalo broilers and brought up exclusively on milk for the purpose of being slaughtered young for meat. Due to the religious importance of cows in India and Nepal, there is a need to differentiate buffalo meat from beef. In countries like India, for religious and cultural reasons, most of the population does not eat beef (meat from cows). In a large number of the Indian states and in Nepal, slaughtering cattle is prohibited. Communal violence sometimes happens over cattle slaughter or even over suspected beef consumption. Buffalo are a type of bovid, but their