> Of course, I also don’t eat meat eggs or milk
It doesn't change a lot anyway.
It's a change for you, that's for sure, but not for the World.
For example: in US in the past 50 years meat consumption per capita has not gone down, but what radically changed is what kind of meat Americans eat.
Once was beef all the time, now more than 50% of the meat is poultry, only about 20% is beef.
Why?
Have people become more aware of the beef feelings?
The industry simply realized that poultry is a lot cheaper to farm, you can stuff a lot more of them in the same space and take a lot less time (poultry 3-4 months, vile 12-18 months)
But the margins are higher, if you sell beef (for example, just as a measure) at 10 monetary units/kg you can sell poultry at 6/kg. It will look cheaper than beef so it's gonna sell more, but truth is beef costed 6/kg to produce, poultry probably something around 0.5-1/kg.
And that's what really drives a change in habits in societies and economic system where free market is the only available choice.
It works much better and without all the friction that ethics or beliefs pose.
Next big thing is gonna be plant based food, because it's even cheaper than poultry, it's not evident if the plant is suffering or not (it's easy to recognize a limping chicken, what about a peronospora on lettuce?) but you can sell it at the same price of poultry.
Even better, thanks to the small portions packaging, you can buy at the supermarket 250gr of salad at 1.50 euro in Italy (and that's the price of the cheap one), which is 6 euros/kg, avocados cost about 7-8 euros/kg, but roasted chicken costs about 5 euros/kg!
And it's ready to eat!
That's something we should also be careful about.
But we don't.
> that’s only if you let your cat out. Every
Not really.
But suppose we do all the time.
What do they eat then?
not their owners' flesh I suppose...
They eat other animals
The meat you don't eat is gonna become food for pets (cats and dogs have a special tendency to not care about humans' religions and eat meat to survive), it's already happening, pet food is an ever growing market, which is already valued around 100 billion dollars and guess who is the primary segment for this market?
It's the US with 40% of the global market.
Cats and dogs in US are already eating, today, in 2020, 30% of the meat produced.
It they were a Nation, they would rank 5th in the World for meat consumption.
When I talk about priorities, this is what I actually mean: how many animals can we save fighting the fur industry and how many by giving up on keeping pets confined in our houses?
(the irony, minks in a cage are considered a crime, a cat in an apartment that can never go out it's caring...)
But nobody asks this question, because it's an uncomfortable one and it would mean to actually face the consequences of our actions and rethink our societies from the ground up, instead we prefer as a species to "Tilting at Windmills" the same way Don Quixote did.