the modern meat supply chain is at the center of a cluster of global risks, increasing the likelihood of zoonotic pandemics, driving deforestation that destroys our last remaining carbon sinks, and weakening the power of our antibiotics.
Powerful and enforced regulation and supply management can close down slaughterhouses; new products can’t…
Alt-protein boosterism is, fundamentally, a capital- and capitalism-friendly approach—
Meat has cultural value in many societies; people don’t only love it because they love sin or violence or blood or patriarchy.
We have to start shutting down factory farms like they’re coal plants and crude oil pipelines, and ultimately ration production. We should justify these rations on the grounds of humanity’s survival.
The Environmental Protection Agency, the Agriculture Department, the White House, Congress—all can begin to limit livestock production today…
To stop consuming world-ending quantities of meat, we have to limit its production... rather than capitulate to suicidal optimism.
Charlie Hope-D’Anieri is an independent reporter based in Baltimore.
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