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US meat products with sustainability labels do cost more, but price premiums vary greatly - from an average 7% increase for "organic" labelled chicken, to an average 33% increase for "grass-fed" labelled beef

08.12.26 | PLOS
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Price premiums for meat products with sustainability labels
US meat products with sustainability labels do cost more, but price premiums vary. Credit: S. Laiba Ali, Unsplash, CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)

US meat products with sustainability labels do cost more, but price premiums vary greatly - from an average 7% increase for "organic" labelled chicken, to an average 33% increase for "grass-fed" labelled beef

Article URL : https://plos.io/45xl3kA

Article title: Price premiums for meat products with sustainability labels

Author countries: US, Republic of Korea.

Funding: This study was supported by the two grant two research grants as below. 1. This study was partly supported by National Institute of Food and Agriculture (Hatch Project 7007883 to N.W). 2. This study was also partly supported by Economic Research Service (Cooperative Agreement 58-3000-1-0097 to J.L.).

PLOS One

10.1371/journal.pone.0353190

Price premiums for meat products with sustainability labels

12-Aug-2026

The findings and conclusions in this article are those of the authors and should not be construed to represent any official USDA or U.S. government determination or policy.

Keywords

Agriculture Applied Sciences and Engineering Farming Food Production Food Science Livestock

Article Information

Journal
PLOS One
DOI
10.1371/journal.pone.0353190
Article Publication Date
2026-08-12
Article Title
Price premiums for meat products with sustainability labels
COI Statement
The findings and conclusions in this article are those of the authors and should not be construed to represent any official USDA or U.S. government determination or policy.

Contact Information

Hanna Abdallah
PLOS
onepress@plos.org

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PLOS. (2026, August 12). US meat products with sustainability labels do cost more, but price premiums vary greatly - from an average 7% increase for "organic" labelled chicken, to an average 33% increase for "grass-fed" labelled beef. Brightsurf News. https://www.brightsurf.com/news/LRD04PR8/us-meat-products-with-sustainability-labels-do-cost-more-but-price-premiums-vary-greatly-from-an-average-7-increase-for-organic-labelled-chicken-to-an-average-33-increase-for-grass-fed-labelled-beef.html
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"US meat products with sustainability labels do cost more, but price premiums vary greatly - from an average 7% increase for "organic" labelled chicken, to an average 33% increase for "grass-fed" labelled beef." Brightsurf News, Aug. 12 2026, https://www.brightsurf.com/news/LRD04PR8/us-meat-products-with-sustainability-labels-do-cost-more-but-price-premiums-vary-greatly-from-an-average-7-increase-for-organic-labelled-chicken-to-an-average-33-increase-for-grass-fed-labelled-beef.html.