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I've always wondered, is there a compromise to be made? Meat's probably never going away, so is there a way we can incentivize the production of cleaner meat?
by striking 9y ago
I've always wondered, is there a compromise to be made?
Meat's probably never going away, so is there a way we can incentivize the production of cleaner meat?
I don't even mean the lab-grown stuff, I mean free-range and cage-free and such. Wouldn't paying the premium for some theoretical "better meat" encourage meat producers to clean up their acts, instead of catering to people who eat meat because it's cheap and easy to cook?
- kafkaesq 9y agoMeat's probably never going away, so is there a way we can incentivize the production of cleaner meat? Yes, by making the retail price reflect the true environmental costs of producing it. And if that means that the supply is drastically curtailed (as it inevitably will be, as we increasingly recognize that the environmental cost is simply too high) - then so be it.
- AstralStorm 9y agoAnd then suddenly you would have trouble from lobbies and all kinds of pressure groups. And the price of this experiment, as always, would be paid by the poorest.
- paulcole 9y ago> Meat's probably never going away This is actually something I've been willing to bet on with the right odds (although it's not really practical). I think that there's a good chance that all fast-food chains will be meatless within my lifetime. It would take one really serious mad-cow-ish health scare across a few major national chains to really reduce people's faith in fast food meat. It's unlikely, but not THAT unlikely, in my opinion.
- subculture 9y agoIf you have BBC iPlayer, "Carnage" is a recent mockumentary set in 2067 that explores a similar topic - the end of meat.