IS IT MORE IMPRACTICAL TO EXPECT PEOPLE TO EAT LESS MEAT THAN IT IS TO EXPECT PEOPLE TO EAT "FAKE MEAT" SUBSTITUTES?
I’m inclined to say “no.”
We should reduce the current number of animals being raised and killed for human needs. We also need to rethink our relationship with these animals and our crop-based agriculture. But does this 'less consumption but still eating animals' solution run against our very nature or some of our deepest personal virtues?
What is the business proposition for promoting policies incentivizing less consumption of animal products?
Perhaps we just need to substitute the meat with an alternative meat?
The CEO of the cell-based meat company, Eat Just, says “our addiction to meat runs deep in us.” It’s seems the focus on meat substitution solutions embraces the cynicism in that people won’t choose to eat less. This might be true absent any other incentives. I found the final points by the author of this nytimes editorial that causing a buzz salient and piercing: https://lnkd.in/g2KXxSha. Their closing comments resonated the most with me:
"Cultivated meat was an embodiment of the wish that we can change everything without changing anything. We wouldn’t need to rethink our relationship to Big Macs and bacon. We could go on believing that the world would always be the way we’ve known it."
"Cultivated meat was also a tantalizing spin on a deeply American fantasy: that we can buy our way to a better world. In a world where our favorite indulgences tend to come at someone else’s — or something else’s — expense, this was a product that reframed consumption as virtue. And for the investor class, it was confirmation that making money and doing good can really be the same thing."
"Last, it was a manifestation of our faith in technology and in dreamers with a fancy prototype, a pitch deck and a good amount of natural charm."
Has the movement to reduce the detrimental impacts of animal agriculture given up on regulatory leverage we’ve used in the past with say tobacco? Things like Taxes, PSAs, labels, mandates? I'm not talking about government funding of alternative meat substitutes or for animal meat either. The latter needs significant overhauling along with the rest of our corporate-captured agriculture public policy. Indeed, the alt meat and the pro animal meat investors and shareholders might be in agreement to maintain this status quo.
My personal virtue, is a world where we eat much less meat, that is raised more integrated with crop agriculture, and eat much more plants that closely resemble their 'native' state.
Here is a useful list of See this scientific advice to the EU: https://lnkd.in/gdctZepS.
Perhaps the best solution for eaters is also the cheapest? Let's save some money, calories, and trips to the hospital by just eating less. And Govt can provide additional incentives.
#cultivatedmeat #meat #animals #plantbasedprotein
Excellent, it’s all about milk quality and animal health.