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We could tax greenhouse gas emissions to internalize the environmental cost.
If the beef burger would cost 2x more than the plant-based burger (which basically tastes the same but has 90% fewer emissions), most people would choose the plant-based one. That would massively reduce food related ghg emissions, and also create a huge incentive to develop better alternatives/lab meat.
This. The simplest path toward a sustainable economy is doing away with the externalisation of costs on products that're killing us.
I can't agree with you on those plant-based burgers though. In no way do they taste the same. If you tax the shit out of cow meat though, it's likely that someone will be able to develop a better alternative.
Not American but doesn't the US government subsidize the meat and dairy industries? Could definitely start with lessening or doing away with that.
It's not just the US. Canada does it too, and i expect many other countries do as well. But yes, this is a great place to start, along with rolling back the trillions of dollars in fossil fuel subsidies.
Have you tried the Beyond burgers, granted I haven't eaten meat in 30 years, but to me they are so meat like that it makes me gag
Yup. I've had a few versions of both Beyond Meat and Impossible burgers. They're both better than what came before, but critically, I didn't like them. They certainly weren't comparable to actual cow.
...and I'm cool with that. Mass farming cows is killing us, so we need to drastically reduce that industry down to boutique level so that a "real" burger costs 5-10Γ what it does now. I just hope that we can do better than the current candidates. My personal hope is that the lab grown meat will be a fitting replacement.
Lab Grown meat makes sense to me. find the tastiest cell lines and replicate. So much waste in cattle farming, and nasty shit going into the cows to keep them viable.
Burgers have already gone up 250% in the past couple of years. Slow your roll there guy.