034: David Simon on Meatonomics and How the Meat and Dairy Industry Impose Substantial Negative Externalities on Society
Economic Rockstar
English - May 28, 2015 04:30 - 43 minutes - 19.9 MB - ★★★★★ - 136 ratingsCourses Education Business Investing college money behavioraleconomics bitcoin careers economics economists education finance freakonomics Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
David Robinson Simon is a lawyer and advocate for sustainable consumption.
David works as general counsel for a healthcare company and serves on the board of the Animal Protection and Rescue League Fund, a non-profit dedicated to protecting animals.
David runs a website that keeps us up-to-date on matters arising from the farm animal industry as well as informing us of other animal-related causes.
David received his B.A. from U.C. Berkeley and his J.D. from the University of Southern California. He is the author of two books: New Millennium Law Dictionary, a full-length legal dictionary and Meatonomics.
He lives in Southern California with his partner, artist Tania Marie, and their rabbit, tortoise, and two cats.
Find Out:
why David, a lawyer, turned to economics to explain how the meat industry is a cost to society.
about the lack of rights that exist for farm animals.
how the farming community set the standards on how farm animals are treated.
how the Customary Farming Extension was introduced to legally treat farm animals inhumanely.
about the environmental costs associated with producing animal products.
how to control or even reverse climate change by reducing meat consumption.
how taking shorter showers is not going to alleviate the drought in California.
what the true external cost to society is when someone consumes an animal product.
how deferring climate change measures today will impose greater costs on society in the future.
what David, who is a vegan, had for breakfast this morning.
the ingredients to David’s ‘power smoothie’ - a refreshing and nutrient dense meal in a glass!
how companies are being subsidised by government to lower the retail price of meat.
about the heavy subsidies being paid out to the meat industry.
how artificially-low meat and dairy prices are fuelled by out-of-whack farm subsidies.
about Ireland’s removal of milk quotas and what it means for market prices.
and much, much more.
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