> Humanity hasn't had such a high meat consumption ever before, it's an aberration of the last century that is unsustainable. Humanity hasn't had 7 billion peo

> Humanity hasn't had such a high meat consumption ever before, it's an aberration of the last century that is unsustainable. Humanity hasn't had 7 billion people before. It grew by 6 billion in said century. Is that sustainable, you think? Every extra person has a carbon footprint and consequently contributes to increase in land-use and resource exploitation, and by extension environmental destruction. Modifiers like fossil fuels exacerbate the rate of destruction but ultimately the scaling remains with whatever we replace with. The only sustainable course is for growth to stagnate entirely. This is popularly predicted on the horizon, but it seems too optimistic. So long as there is global poverty and inaccessibility to contraceptives there will be growth. High meat consumption isn't exactly novel, it just hasn't been done to this scale. During Victorian period of inequality it may have been lower among workers, but that hasn't always been true. -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_and_dining_in_the_Roman_Empire#cite_note-Seo_p._199-23 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_and_dining_in_the_Roman_E...