- What I’m missing are examples of how we could create a positive image: e.g., completely new, diverse types of meat that make existing meat look “old” – a penguin-kangaroo burger, a crocodile steak, whatever – fancy stuff, all without harming the animals. Cult-promoted by celebrities who are open to the issue!
- Also neglected are aspects such as (from a human perspective) catastrophic events that could quickly bring industrial livestock farming to an end: Something like multi-resistance to antibiotics, rendering antibiotics ineffective not only in human medicine, but also in industrial livestock farming itself, which depends on antibiotics for its very existence. Possibly a pandemic, like the coronavirus mutations that killed the Danish mink industry at the end of 2020, which had until then been the largest mink industry in the world. But a pandemic on a larger scale, and affecting chickens and/or pigs. Probability? Hard to estimate, but by no means zero. Climate change/crisis would also be such an event, but it’s apparently far too gradual to cause such drastic cuts.
Interesting article.
- What I’m missing are examples of how we could create a positive image: e.g., completely new, diverse types of meat that make existing meat look “old” – a penguin-kangaroo burger, a crocodile steak, whatever – fancy stuff, all without harming the animals. Cult-promoted by celebrities who are open to the issue!
- Also neglected are aspects such as (from a human perspective) catastrophic events that could quickly bring industrial livestock farming to an end: Something like multi-resistance to antibiotics, rendering antibiotics ineffective not only in human medicine, but also in industrial livestock farming itself, which depends on antibiotics for its very existence.
Possibly a pandemic, like the coronavirus mutations that killed the Danish mink industry at the end of 2020, which had until then been the largest mink industry in the world. But a pandemic on a larger scale, and affecting chickens and/or pigs. Probability? Hard to estimate, but by no means zero. Climate change/crisis would also be such an event, but it’s apparently far too gradual to cause such drastic cuts.