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> someone will need to reform the federal food subsidies that keep meat an order of magnitude cheaper than it should be Sadly, as most of us probably know alre
by geddy 7y ago
> someone will need to reform the federal food subsidies that keep meat an order of magnitude cheaper than it should be
Sadly, as most of us probably know already, that would require the buddies of Big Agriculture to do work that directly attacks Big Agriculture. Won't happen, not now, not ever. There's simply too much money in it.
I think the only thing that might shuttle this process along is that Big Agri starts coming out with their own plant-based alternatives, like Tyson is doing. Once the big money gets into the political environment, that's when things will really change. I look forward to the prices taking a dive when that happens.
- annogram 7y agoInsular behavior like this will eventually leave the USA in the dust. China is redoing their entire energy infrastructure and while they probably wont move off meat any time soon at least they have that going for them. Most of Europe and the rest of the Anglo-sphere will happily move to plant-based proteins and completely leave that industry behind. When some of the leading industries in the US are just not exported whats the status of that country going to be.
- F-0X 7y ago> Most of Europe and the rest of the Anglo-sphere will happily move to plant-based proteins and completely leave that industry behind I really doubt that.