You’re right that the issue at its core isn’t the meat eater problem. The bigger issue is that we don’t even know if saving lives now will increase or decrease future populations (there are difficult arguments on both sides). If we don’t even know that, then we are going to be at a complete loss to try to conduct assessments on animal welfare and climate change, even though we know there are going to be important impacts here.
You’re right that the issue at its core isn’t the meat eater problem. The bigger issue is that we don’t even know if saving lives now will increase or decrease future populations (there are difficult arguments on both sides). If we don’t even know that, then we are going to be at a complete loss to try to conduct assessments on animal welfare and climate change, even though we know there are going to be important impacts here.