A meat market is, traditionally, a marketplace where meat is sold, often by a butcher.
It may also refer to:
- Meat packing industry
- As an alternative spelling for meet market, a singles event or location with many single people, especially one where attendees are rapidly sizing up members of the opposite sex with objectifying criteria, such as attractiveness, wealth, and fashion sense, before taking the time to get to know attendees on a deeper level.
- A place where one goes for a casual sexual encounter
- Meat Market: Animals, Ethics, and Money, a book by author Erik Marcus criticizing animal agriculture and the meat industry.
The purported link between societal gender relations and meat sales techniques and treatment of animals has also been discussed in feminist literature, including those focused on women and animal advocacy.
Famous quotes containing the words meat and/or market:
“They said they were an-hungry; sighed forth proverbs—
That hunger broke stone walls, that dogs must eat,
That meat was made for mouths, that the gods sent not
Corn for the rich men only.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“When General Motors has to go to the bathroom ten times a day, the whole country’s ready to let go. You heard of that market crash in ‘29? I predicted that.... I was nursing a director of General Motors. Kidney ailment, they said; nerves, I said. Then I asked myself, “What’s General Motors got to be nervous about?” “Overproduction,” I says. “Collapse.””
—John Michael Hayes (b. 1919)