Meat Eaters, Subsidized by Vegetarians

Via a commenter at Washington Monthly, here’s a chart on food subsidies:

Food Subsidies

So, vegetarians are subsidizing meat eaters and these subsidies help to drive up food prices overall (since more grain is used to get animal protein than we would use directly).

Update: The NY Times has an article on manufactured meat (with a link to the In vitro meat site). I’m not sure where this would go for a vegetarian, after all an animal isn’t killed.  Hmm.

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