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Instability resulting from war or corruption leads to the collapse of enforcement of anti-poaching laws, and simultaneously encroachment by farmers and miners o
by 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).