Oh for cripes sake hear it the latest wacko theoey...meat is going to be banned..
When?
“Oh for cripes sake hear it the latest wacko theoey...meat is going to be banned..”
I guess if you want to be particular, replaced ‘banned’, with ‘effectively banned’.
Are you not familiar with what’s going on in The Netherlands and Canada? I expect the same here after the Mid-terms.
...meat is going to be banned...
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First it becomes scarce and expensive due to laws against aspects of husbandry or bans on catching the wild source. Then it becomes demonized as gross/inhumane, just like goose liver pate or sturgeon eggs or veal.
I was raised on veal. It was inexpensive and an alternative to pork for those keeping kosher. It is now unavailable in normal groceries and the last time I saw it at Whole Foods, perhaps 5 years ago, it was $40/lb. Most people under 50 have never tasted it and the very thought makes them uncomfortable or ill. Farmers will not produce it because they could be ratted out as inhumane, besides it being expensive to slaughter the young, milk-fed, confined animal instead of letting it graze to full size. I make my own chicken liver pate, but the cost of the livers has risen 2x-3x recently.
I also render chicken fat and tallow. They are still available for specialty stores, but the prices are phenomenal considering what healthy fats they both are. What market forces are at play to make what is otherwise waste simply disappear? None. It is done for ideological purposes and to reduce competition for hydrogenated seed oils. Butter is now available in 1/2 pounds because of the same reasons.
They won’t need to ban it, just depress the market by making it too expensive to produce or buy, due to regulations and conditioning, wait until no one recalls the taste or has any craving for it, then let it disappear. Eventually, the meat animals themselves achieve the same fate and will be gone.
People do become hyperbolic, but they are not wrong about goals. What do you suppose the real reasons behind the *new* ‘nitrogen control’ laws on farmers are.
These are virtual, incremental bans that go far beyond meat to eventually encompass fresh eggs, real, whole milk and full fat yogurt, cream cheese, full fat cheeses, and sour cream, all of which have jumped in price and become intermittently scarce as a starting point.
This doesn’t even touch the various non-edible animal products that will be impacted. The goal is a world without domesticated animals and it is in process. Period.