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A large part from that is due to the abhorrent conditions that most meat is produced in and the fact that (IIRC) livestock amounts to 15 times the biomass of all wild mammals combined right now. If you tally up land used to feed livestock and all the other side effects of the meat industry, it doesn't look very sustainable to me. It's kinda hard to have almost 8 billion people live like hunter gatherers I guess.

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I agree the situation in many stables is abhorrent.

However. Online im able to get meat from "wild" cows who roam free in certain "nature" areas.

Imagine trying to scale this sort of thing so it can serve everyone instead of a narrow affluent slice of the most affluent societies.

I eat grass-fed local cows and its almost half the price per lb as regular ground beef at Walmart, and obviously includes every cut there is.

We probably need to increase the number of farms and farmers, and decentralize agriculture. Bonus side effect: it’s more resilient to shocks like Covid taking out a few meat packing plants or a natural disaster taking out the massive Smithfield facility in Virginia.

It sounds like scale is the problem.

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