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'Gigantic’ power of meat industry blocking green alternatives, study finds
(www.theguardian.com)
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What's aggrivating about addressing this problem is that the meat ans dairy industry's propaganda has its tendrils so deep in the brains of most people that you can't even broach the topic of addressing the impact of artificially cheap meat without triggering most people and causing them to shut down.
You can't even suggest we should just eat less meat, let alone have a coherent conversation about changing the industry to make the price of meat properly reflect its real-world cost in resources.
In France, an ecological politician tried to talk about it recently, now she is receiving hundred of tweets of people taking pictures with huge pieces of meat, very proud of their own stupidity (including other politicians). I observe some changes around me though, in countries (home and host countries) where meat is still very important in the common diet, but far from being large and fast enough unfortunately...
It's unfortunately become an identity thing, which is really sad because it means its one of those things that is just entrenched and nearly unreachable intellectually. That's why people respond with dumb stuff like them eating an entire ham or whatever. In the US they've successfully tied the idea of eating meat to conservative concepts about masculinity, which is a pretty toxic combo.