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Except it's not because the industry is not going to reduce its production and instead of being used it will just be thrown away at the store. They would require a significant chunk of the population to get on board with this to such a degree that it forced them to reduce production which will literally never happen there's other more realistic things we can be doing
Raising animals costs a huge amount of money. Who can afford to raise animals that aren’t selling?
Good point, but the market is very inefficient system for determining supply.
And big companies have other methods for dealing with low demand like
It would still be way less profitable in the end and would raise questions by the public as to why so much money being wasted on a cruel inefficient system.
That is what I am saying it will become less profitable after years, we need climate change solutions now.
And most people are very good at ignoring cruelty.
The People who want baby steps don’t give a damn about the environment. It’s just business as usual for them.