I won’t say my opinion is very informed here, but in India, the growing acceptability of meat consumption (with younger people less likely to be vegetarian, as mentioned in the report) and the current government seem like reasons to expect bigger asks to be easier to make now than in the next few decades. It seems like attitudes will get worse before they get better again.
Maybe asking for low maximum stocking densities would be promising in India? Or otherwise prescribing farming practices, like Sentience Politics’ and Switzerland’s initiative to ban factory farming by requiring animals to be farmed according to organic standards (including imports).
Or, appeal to purity and health, and ask for animal farms to be cleaner in certain ways that also benefit animals. Of course, stocking densities are also relevant here, because of disease spread and pollution.
EDIT: Ah, I guess stocking densities are harder to verify and enforce, and this would be particularly difficult in India, which you say has problems with enforcement already.
These are interesting ideas that could be worth considering, but you’re definitely right that any interventions that work on a state-wide/nation-wide scale will be very difficult to enforce and this poor enforcement will likely be the limiting factor to the success of any intervention like this. I will make a note of these ideas, though, to have a look into when I next have the chance, thanks!
I won’t say my opinion is very informed here, but in India, the growing acceptability of meat consumption (with younger people less likely to be vegetarian, as mentioned in the report) and the current government seem like reasons to expect bigger asks to be easier to make now than in the next few decades. It seems like attitudes will get worse before they get better again.
Maybe asking for low maximum stocking densities would be promising in India? Or otherwise prescribing farming practices, like Sentience Politics’ and Switzerland’s initiative to ban factory farming by requiring animals to be farmed according to organic standards (including imports).
Or, appeal to purity and health, and ask for animal farms to be cleaner in certain ways that also benefit animals. Of course, stocking densities are also relevant here, because of disease spread and pollution.
EDIT: Ah, I guess stocking densities are harder to verify and enforce, and this would be particularly difficult in India, which you say has problems with enforcement already.
Hi Michael, thanks for your comment!
These are interesting ideas that could be worth considering, but you’re definitely right that any interventions that work on a state-wide/nation-wide scale will be very difficult to enforce and this poor enforcement will likely be the limiting factor to the success of any intervention like this. I will make a note of these ideas, though, to have a look into when I next have the chance, thanks!