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The planet needs China to curb its appetite for meat
- anonymouswacker 7y agoI hit the pay wall, but the introduction of it has two unfounded premises: - Eating meat is bad for the planet - Eating meat has a direct causation of negative health outcomes If China were too gluttonous on meat for current supply, then wouldn't that just cause prices to go up, and supply to go up too? Perhaps government central planners and those who support them at the Economist need to learn basic micro-economics.
- kn0where 7y agoThe environmental costs of meat are negative externalities not included in the sticker price.
- linksnapzz 7y ago"negative externalities" without rigorous proof of such, are the technocrat's go-to justification for arbitrary control of anyone's behavior.
- NotSammyHagar 7y agoI don't think this article is really fair or complete enough, because we in the western world started a lot of the practice that meat is what wealthy people get, and we sure eat a lot of meat here, and did a lot of the industrial planning to make mass production possible. I love a burger myself, but for the health of the planet all societies should be eating less meat, reducing its use.
- spicyramen 7y agoHit the paywall, but a country with a massive population that is helping many of them are leveling up and leaving poverty how can you prevent them to stop eating meat? Is easy to say from a nice office in NY but hard to explain to a farmer