I've found "vegan meat" to be an interesting microcosm of the entire problem. We allowed our standard of living to exceed what we can sustain as a civilization.

I've found "vegan meat" to be an interesting microcosm of the entire problem. We allowed our standard of living to exceed what we can sustain as a civilization. And we don't culturally know how to "lower our collective standard of living" in a graceful way. To an extent where we are giving up and our only hope is to "make it taste better" and trick people into thinking a downgrade is an improvement. This entire article's complaint is an echo of this. We can't fundamentally re-work the underpinning expansionism and expectation of monotonic improvement underpinning the fabric of our society gracefully, we just have to hurt people until they accept living on less. Why re-train when you can just let them starve/die of preventable disease. We have to build a culture of "retraining" of "here is a new thing you can do instead". Without that, the only real decision is which people in what order people get hurt, how often and by whom.