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- ↑ Deborah Gewertz, Frederick Errington, Cheap Meat: Flap Food Nations in the Pacific Islands, University of California Press, 2010. ISBN 0520260937
- ↑ Deutsche Welle, Agriculture – The high cost of cheap meat, January, 11 2013
- ↑ Meat Atlas 2014 – Facts and figures about the animals we eat, chapter: The hidden cost of steak, page 20, download Meat Atlas as pdf
- ↑ The Guardian, Why cheap meat costs the Earth, 4 September 2013
- ↑ Huffington Post / RollingStone, Animal Cruelty Is The Price We Pay For Cheap Meat, 12/10/2013
- ↑ ABC Australia, How much is cheap meat really costing us?, 21 Jun 2013
- ↑ The New York Times, The High Cost of Cheap Meat, June 2 2011
- ↑ Chicago tribune, The costs of cheap meat – Critics of factory farms say we pay a high price for low-cost food, September 24, 2010
- ↑ The Guardian, Farmageddon: The True Cost of Cheap Meat by Philip Lymbery – review, 31 January 2014
