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Originally Posted by Godslayer Jillian
Changing it how?
Minimizing its size? (i.e. minimizing our meat consumption [i.e. increasingly changing into a vegetarian diet])
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There are a lot of ways in which the meat industry can be improved (and decreasing its size would indeed be an improvement).
In vitro meat is one thing, as I said in a previous post. It'll be a meat industry minus the waste and cruelty.
Then there's an increase in the price of meat, indeed the price of all animal products. $1.00 burgers are just asking for over-consumption, and prices like that pretty much guarantee a lot of corners are cut in the welfare of the livestock. The extra profits from meat could go to better living conditions and greater enforcement to ensure certain standards are met in those areas.
Education in proper nutrition would also be a major help. A lot of people just don't realise that vegan, vegetarian and even partially vegetarian diets can be a whole lot healthier than carnivorous ones. It's been considered in some places to introduce classes in school that teach kids how to feed themselves, be it just by buying the right stuff from the supermarket, cooking or growing their own fruits and vegetables. If you want to change the way people eat you've got to get them started from an early age, and since the massive amounts of meat consumed in the Western world are literally killing people you'd think it's about time to teach the next generation a thing or two about not dying of heart disease. If people ate only HEALTHY amounts of meat the industry would probably be a quarter the size it is now.