With the number of cattle on this planet, this would require an insane amount of land.
>FDA should mandate that all cows raised in confinement conditions get labeled as "prison beef'.
I'm sure people would consume less if the simply put slaughter pictures on each piece of meat they buy. Rather than outsource the killing to a third party, which keeps people emotionally detached from the killing of billions of animals every year.
Which would constrain consumption, and cause prices to rise. Eventually we might end up at a sustainable amount. If that means most of us can't afford nearly as much, then that is probably great for our future and the planet.
> if the simply put slaughter pictures on each piece of meat they buy
Hmm. Sounds reasonable, except pictures alone didn't do that much to smoking rates. Pricing and eliminating marketing did.
So comparing eating meat to smoking seems pretty ridiculous.
Also if you look at government reports on greenhouse gas emissions animal agriculture only accounts for < 3% of U.S. emissions. It's a factor for sure, but not worth our primary focus imho.
https://www.epa.gov/ghgemissions/sources-greenhouse-gas-emis...
Rising meat prices, for whatever reason, would tend to reduce consumption.
If you showed a bunch of in shape healthy people on low carb diets I'm not sure that would cause meat sales to decline.
If you mean slaughter, well maybe it would have an effect on sales, maybe it wouldn't. But it's not comparable to the anti-smoking ads.
It's not as cut and try and you may think.
[1]https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/2015/11/03/repo... [2]https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanonc/article/PIIS1470-2...
I mean, I don't care if you aim for either "Luxury for all" or "Luxury isn't sustainable" but at least be consistent.
It pretty clearly isn't sustainable. So what would you do?
To be honest the slaughtering didn't put me off as much as learning under which conditions those animals have to spend their lives. They should put pictures of that on the meat products, or show Dominion in schools.
Most probably such blatant attempt on "psychological manipulation for toddlers" would backfire loudly. Adult omnivorous people know yet how a skinned cow corpse looks, keep enjoying meat, and couldn't care less. Other people would slowly desensitize by the continuous exposure and could even increase the consumption.
Certainly if the picture of the cow itself were on the package, and a randomly-generated name printed below the photo.
It's funny the dissonance of having the video cut between shots of the entrepreneur pitching the product while walking through an open green field, and shots of the cows in standing-room-only stalls.
A conventional dairy farm does not confine the animals it just collects their milk each day and the cows know the routine.
We loose track of the implementation details of how the food is sourced.
People raise cattle in Alaska.
It seems like a much better solution to this 'problem' is let cows live outdoors and graze on grass.
FDA should mandate that all cows raised in confinement conditions get labeled as "prison beef'.