History shows that the richer people get, the more meat they crave
he case for giving up meat should be easy to win. Eating meat is clearly inconsiderate to animals: slaughtering billions of sentient beings each year seems gratuitously cruel when our nutritional needs can easily be met in other ways. It’s demonstrably unfair to our fellow humans and the environment, too. Meat-eating – especially consuming beef, which is the most wasteful and environmentally damaging kind – is responsible for most of the carbon emissions the food industry produces.
It’s true that various systemic changes could help stop the meat industry destroying the planet. If meat packaging displayed how much rainforest had been felled to graze each cow, guilt might put off some shoppers. Slashing subsidies to livestock farmers and putting a carbon tax on meat would raise the price of your sausages or Sunday roast, and so ration demand.
According to this principle, you should do things only if it would be fine if everyone did so. If scaling up your actions would be untenable, those actions are probably immoral. Kant, needless to say, would have taken a dim view of those who piled their shopping trolleys high during the first lockdown, leaving the shelves bare for the rest of us.
Third come the hoarders, otherwise known as the shoppers who bought up all the loo rolls. The equivalent is countries where so much meat is eaten that there simply isn’t enough land in the world for everyone else to dine the same way. America, Australia and France are all culprits.
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