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People say they're against animal cruelty and express concern for the environment, but they seem unwilling to back that up with action. Could economic pressure

• Joakal 10y ago
  Farm Cheetahs. Look at cats and dogs not going extinct. Of course, it's not 'wild animal' friendly.
• elif 10y ago
  Instability resulting from war or corruption leads to the collapse of enforcement of anti-poaching laws, and simultaneously encroachment by farmers and miners occurs either in a likewise lapse of enforcement or through direct sales by said corrupt sovereigns. The only cure is a ubiquity of states which are willing and capable of protecting and rewilding these lands, restoring entire indigenous ecosystems, and halting or mitigating the destructive effects of climate change. In regard to market forces, the US does not subsidize these grazers, unless you mean aid to their host countries. Our complicity lies in a series of free trade agreements which pushed US production around the world while the carnivorous part of the American diet followed culturally. As this global demand for meat already exists, the die is cast. It is a problem for culture at this point (short of dietary fascism).
• pjc50 10y ago
  Different people and different Ag subsidies. Eliminating subsidy in the west isn't going to make much of a difference to subsistence farming in Africa.
  • mark_edward 10y ago
    Yes it would. What many countries do with agricultural subsidies and exports is effectively dumping. It's to protect domestic farming which is a fine goal but doing this and taking crap about free trade is a joke, and it really screws undeveloped countries whose only potential competitive advantage is low cost of labour. Just look at EU farmers and all the support they get.
• mstodd 10y ago
  People want virtue like they want anything else: quick and cheap