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This land isn’t for you or me. It’s for the meat industry. | Almost half of the continental US is used for meat production. There’s something better we could do with it. (www.vox.com)
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[–] Soundhole@lemm.ee 49 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Fake meat is cheaper, it's just not heavily, heavily, subsidized by your tax dollars.

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

There was a video from a rancher floating around in like 2020 where he talks about the meat industry. There are billions of dollars every single day flowing through the meat industry. It goes primarily to the processing facilities and they use it to create surplus and waste to drive the prices down before making huge orders. The process hurts everyone except the ultra-wealthy.