Here in [some european country] preferred way of getting quality meat is at the market, where it is not prepackaged. Larger supermarkets also sell non-packaged meat. What did you mean by such strong assertion?
So may I suggest we simply do what we can to reduce our consumption of meat. As it is simply not sustainable right now.
Instead, try this, Cauliflower that looks like Chicken! Taste is close too!
http://sweetpotatosoul.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Vegan-...
Or burger pattie that is made from Banana flower (i'm from the tropics).
> Soybean meal is the largest source of protein feed in the world, and is generally used in animal feed. Therefore, most of the world's soybeans are consumed indirectly by humans through products like meat (chicken, pork and beef), dairy, eggs and farmed fish.
http://wwf.panda.org/our_work/food/agriculture/soy/consumers...
For non-food items, packaging is necessary to minimize breakage in shipping. How much more garbage would there be if half the manufactured items were broken in transit?
Recycling is the proper answer to the proliferation of packaging. That we, as a society, aren't setting things up properly to facilitate this and minimize landfilling is our own failure, not that of the Chinese. There is absolutely no reason we can't have companies building large plants to collect recyclables and automatedly sort them and break them down for reprocessing into new packaging. If this isn't happening, it's because of a failure of governance.