Re:How to lower the price of plant-based meat
by jrochkind1 on Saturday February 06, 2021 @05:54PM
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Ideally, yes, for sure.
One way or another, it's the only way we get a society that can live on the planet indefinitely without making it less and less fit for human habitation.
How you do that is not necessarily trivial, but we should start doing what we can figure out how to do now, yes. You don't have to do it for everything for it to be valuable to do it for what we can figure out how to do it for.
For meat, simply ending subsidies would be a good start.
Cell phones and other electronics as you point out are another obvious target, yes. Some have proposed that the cost of disposal/recycling should be built into the purchase price -- one practical way to do that, is require manufacturers to take back the products at end of life for recycling or disposal at no charge (and ban them from municipal waste stream).
One way or another, it's the only way we get a society that can live on the planet indefinitely without making it less and less fit for human habitation.
How you do that is not necessarily trivial, but we should start doing what we can figure out how to do now, yes. You don't have to do it for everything for it to be valuable to do it for what we can figure out how to do it for.
For meat, simply ending subsidies would be a good start.
Cell phones and other electronics as you point out are another obvious target, yes. Some have proposed that the cost of disposal/recycling should be built into the purchase price -- one practical way to do that, is require manufacturers to take back the products at end of life for recycling or disposal at no charge (and ban them from municipal waste stream).