Market is about supply and demand. People demand meat. Regardless of how inefficiënt it is produced. And, no surprise, this isn't a free market at all. At leas

Market is about supply and demand. People demand meat. Regardless of how inefficiënt it is produced. And, no surprise, this isn't a free market at all. At least in Europe, meat, dairy (and on lesser extent crops) are heavily subsidised. https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/feed-required-to-produce-one-kilogram-of-meat-or-dairy-product https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/feed-required-to-produce-... has a quick overview. My numbers aren't wrong, but, as always, they do need context (i.e. not all input is currently human consumable. Oos, many input is grass, which is rather ineffective land-use, i.e. the same km² could produce a multitude of human edible foods)