Meatonomics

Meatonomics does something genuinely new: instead of arguing against meat on ethical or health grounds, it runs the economic numbers and finds the industry is offloading roughly two dollars of costs onto taxpayers for every dollar of retail sales. That's a fresh and well-sourced argument, and lawyer Simon writes with the clarity of someone who knows how to make a case. The caveat is that this is unabashedly advocacy writing — counterarguments get little airtime — so go in knowing you're getting one side of the ledger.