The beef industry is heading toward the gallows, here is how you can hasten it's execution date

I am convinced that the beef industry will die within my life time (I am 18 years old). Since this is the vegan subreddit, I will presume everyone here can agree with the statement that climate change will become bad enough to not be ignored in 40 or so years, that beef is very bad for the planet and that beef demand is kept artificially high due to subsidies. If you do not know about the subsidies, take the time to read the source at the end. Here are the steps that will lead to the industry’s downfall:

  1. Humans recklessly exploit earth’s resources and push humanity to the brink of crisis.
  2. This will lead to more people to want to do their part for the planet. When that happens, here is what you can do: make sure to talk about the subsidies the beef lobby receives as the center of your messaging. Many people don’t know about them.
  3. At the same time as 2 is happening, some people will buy more alternatives, which will lessen the amount of money the beef lobby has to bribe politicians. Also, the planet is already important right now, so imagine when we will be having a big refugee crisis and a ton of natural disasters.
  4. The 2 reasons mentioned above will lead to politicians ending beef subsidies. Costs will skyrocket, which will make them lose almost every sale. And just like the tobacco lobby failed to prevent advertisement bans, so will the beef industry have it’s ads banned. In fact, even now, one city banned these ads (second link). The fact that a city banned it before climate problems even really started is a big sign of how bad it will get for them once they do.
  5. This will create a big vacuum. Many companies that are plant based will get a lot more money to offer more products, and people will get in the habit of taking those. This means that the beef lobby has no way to come back from it’s collapse: by the time climate change is solved, people will be into the habit of beef substitutes, it will be extremely expensive and they won’t be able to advertise their “luxury” product. The beef substitutes could create their own lobby to keep the subsidies for themselves, which will be the nail in the coffin for the industry.

Source: The True Cost of a Hamburger

Second link: Dutch city becomes world’s first to ban meat adverts in public | Netherlands | The Guardian

You greatly overestimate what people are prepared to give up in order to rescue the earth, lol.

Amazing to witness this vigor from younger vegans

Anticipating a price reduction on juicy marbles and similar items, as that would be a major game changer.

Even though beyond ste*k is presently on sale in my town for 6.99$, which is excellent, the wheels are already spinning.

Won’t happen. People don’t give a shit.

You believe that rather than driving humanity into a real crisis or extinction, climate change will bring it to the verge of one. You take for granted that people will try to solve the issue rather than devoting all of their energies to merely surviving. At that point, you think, the current political system will still be in place. You presume that following what might turn out to be a global catastrophe, advertising will continue to exist. You anticipate that businesses and the economy will continue to function mostly as they do now. You anticipate a solution to climate change. You assume that beef substitutes—rather than just plants or another substance—will take the place of beef.

An excessive number of assumptions underpin your entire line of reasoning. That far ahead is impossible to anticipate.

Sorry buddy but within your life time, all of society could colapse, turn to canabilism, than ban cannibalism, people would still eat cows.

One day for sur, vegans every where, but in your life time, very unlikely.

Ah, yeah.

You are aware of the study that, in essence, projects a collapse of society by the year 2040?

Yes, many nations will stop subsidizing beef. Climate problems won’t be resolved, and it still won’t be attractive. Just politicians con artists pulling off one last charade. All you can do is pray that you are in the correct nation.

To be honest, I’m relieved that veganism combats climate change. But my motivation for going vegan is far more self-serving than it is lofty.

My feelings are not pleasant when I contribute to the pain of animals. Rather of becoming vegan to protect the environment, I am vegan because it makes me feel good about myself.

I don’t really care if it helps rescue the earth; that’s not really my main concern.

Perhaps you ought to see the movie Look Up. That’s a more realistic representation of how we’ll actually address the climate change issue.

Tell those of us who are still here in fifty or sixty years when you update us and let us know if your conviction is still valid.

Similar to smoking, beef will eventually disappear from society’s forefront but will remain too vital and addictive for a small portion of the population to give up anytime soon.

The industry won’t end in ten or twenty years. Though I’m not, I hope I’m mistaken.

You’re dreaming, buddy. Since the beginning of time, people have consumed meat. Although we might eat less, it will always exist.