http://dx.doi.org/10.59704/802298e2a6379ac2 https://verfassungsblog.de/the-true-price-of-meat/ Towards the True Price of Meat - A Cap-and-Trade Scheme for Animal Agriculture Aiwanger, Felix eng 2025-10-20 electronic resource text/html ddc:342 animal rights animal welfare Cap-and-Trade climate change Meat Governance Verfassungsblog Verfassungsblog--2366-7044 CC BY-SA 4.0 Despite mounting scientific and ethical consensus about the multiple harms of meat production for animals, humans and the environment, current regulatory frameworks largely fail to internalise these costs. On the one hand, animal agriculture is resource-intensive, contributing significantly to climate change, deforestation, water pollution, and biodiversity loss. On the other, it entails systemic ethical issues with regard to the breeding, keeping and killing of animals. This contribution explores the legal feasibility of a cap-and-trade system for meat designed to address the multifaceted harms of animal agriculture and to push meat products closer to their true price.