Should we discourage meat consumption or encourage grass feed instead of grain f

The answer will depend on each student’s assumptions and points of view. If one believes in justice, one might answer the question affirmatively. If one were a neo-Malthusian, one might answer in another way. Some students might ask what form these discouragements might take? If so, answering this question might start a discussion about the nature of agricultural surpluses.

Although the outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease in Europe occurred too late to include in this edition, it might be useful to discuss this outbreak and the subsidies European governments offered to meat producers to cope with the epidemic.