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[+] [email protected] -17 points 17 hours ago (6 children)

There are too many cultural factors involved to get a majority of people to stop eating meat.

The best way to reduce the number of livestock killed is to reduce the number of humans.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

If you’re worried about cultural factors, you might find removing any significant percentage of the total population will likely run into even more implacable “cultural factors” than meat reduction would.

This is regardless of the method of population reduction, save perhaps “slow decline” which seems to be promising atm, but that obviously has the downside that it’ll take a few generations to really have an impact.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

I’m not suggesting a method to reduce population its just an observation that there are simply too many people for basically anything to be sustainable.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 13 hours ago

Fair, we certainly won’t see any perfect or even good solutions given human nature and the large population, but I do think we can achieve mediocre success if we really work hard

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