I gave up meat for a decade and a half. It didn't do shit. Why? Because no one else did. And no one else will to any significant degree of the population. There

I gave up meat for a decade and a half. It didn't do shit. Why? Because no one else did. And no one else will to any significant degree of the population. There likely are more vegetarians and vegans now than in the past based on the number of restaurants that cater to this diet but on the whole, people will not give up eating meat as long as meat exists. People are made to eat meat. What's next? Let's give up sex so that the population stops increasing? That's just as absurd. If meat exists and people can get it, they will eat it. It's that simple. And pretending like this is a solution in the face of that, even if it does reduce greenhouse gas emissions (which it almost certainly does), is a waste of time. If people really think this is a solution, they can try to legislate it away. That won't work either because people will turn to the black market as they currently do for drugs and as they have in the past for meat and other foods when they weren't easily available (in some eastern bloc countries in the 80's for example). This path is a dead end. Environmentalists would better serve their goals by looking towards things that are actually achievable rather than going down paths of impossibility. That is, if they actually want to enact change. A lot of environmentalists just want to be seen as trying to do something when their actions have no actual benefit.