The point is the first comment is stupid and therefore only deserves ridicule. That anyone thinks their view of necessity has any relevance to any argument in a

The point is the first comment is stupid and therefore only deserves ridicule. That anyone thinks their view of necessity has any relevance to any argument in a free market is absurd. The whole point of a free market is that any one person is too dumb to decide any of this stuff for the group and instead we let many people offer what they think is best and let the repeated game of the market allocate resources to people that provide what is actually wanted. The commenter is reading an article on the failure of regulation (regulating organic in such a way that as soon as any non approved treatment is used the animal cannot produce organic milk anymore, dropping the value of the cows output to a small fraction of what it was and heavily incentivizing waiting and seeing rather than minimizing harm through effective and early treatment) into a claim they know none of us should have meat when they are clearly unqualified to make that claim because they can't even read the article posted and see the regulatory failure, they just see more justification for their harebrained anti meat agenda. Also, your last statement is not true, if you spend the time to find a good farmer. The cows I have eaten for the last ten years have been raised in the Joel salatin style, regenerating the degraded prairie the farm bought for cheap, harming very few insects,small mammals, birds, etc (in reality they are building a space that supports a much higher population of all of those), likely sequestering more carbon in the soil than they emit all for not much more than the factory farmed crap you buy at the big box store. One cow lasts almost a year for me. Contrast that with all the insects killed by pesticides, all the small animals and birds killed by farm equipment, etc. that goes into raising grains, vegetables and fruits to feed an equivalent amount of people over time. Vegans/vegetarians are mass murderers in comparison if you value more than the fuzzy large mammals and instead take a whole earth view.