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There is nothing harder to change in this world than culture. Sometimes you can't just make the alternatives better. Sometimes they already are better, and stil
by 0xbadcafebee 4y ago
There is nothing harder to change in this world than culture. Sometimes you can't just make the alternatives better. Sometimes they already are better, and still nothing changes. People are stubborn, interests are entrenched. Sometimes you have to force society to change. It's not ideal, but we don't live in an ideal world.
- nebula8804 4y agoI don't see how you are going to make this stick. Suppose some politician adds a meat tax or something like that. He will just be voted out enmass in the next election and the ruling will be quickly reversed. Furthermore with the way these things go in a country like the US, that successor will not only roll back and tax he will then tax vegetables to help subsidize the meat eaters.
- 0xbadcafebee 4y agoThat's what everybody says about every kind of dis-incentive program, but we have hundreds of them on the books. It would be one thing if it were just trying to correct people's health, but the issue is far greater, spanning ecological impact, water rights, feedstock, farm subsidies, animal treatment, land use, etc. We will one day reduce our use of meat, if only because eventually it won't be feasible to keep farming it at scale. But the sooner we start, the better.