First of all, the goal here is simply to meet the Chinese governments “Sustainable Development Goals.” That’s what “could help protect ground water” means. It’s a meaningless goal from the perspective of veganism or even global conservation.
But it’s also a meaningless solution. The rate of consumption increases each year. In that context, the goal isn’t just, “eat 10% less meat”, it’s, “establish a hard limit on the amount of meat consumed, which is 10% less than our current rate of production.” Maintaining that hard limit becomes a larger and larger commitment each year, with a growing population sharing a fixed amount of meat. There might be a mechanism for accomplishing that IN CHINA, but globally that is an utterly unimplementable solution to any problem that animal ag is currently causing.
Yeah. Right. How long would a 10% reduction last before we were right back where we were.
what do you mean? i think a 10% reduction on the consumption of meat is overall plausible to achieve.
First of all, the goal here is simply to meet the Chinese governments “Sustainable Development Goals.” That’s what “could help protect ground water” means. It’s a meaningless goal from the perspective of veganism or even global conservation.
But it’s also a meaningless solution. The rate of consumption increases each year. In that context, the goal isn’t just, “eat 10% less meat”, it’s, “establish a hard limit on the amount of meat consumed, which is 10% less than our current rate of production.” Maintaining that hard limit becomes a larger and larger commitment each year, with a growing population sharing a fixed amount of meat. There might be a mechanism for accomplishing that IN CHINA, but globally that is an utterly unimplementable solution to any problem that animal ag is currently causing.