I Can’t Eat Much Meat on the Planetary Health Diet—But I’m Feeling Better When I Do.

Good for you. When I don’t eat meat, I feel like a trash bin being savaged by an angry moose. Everyone’s physiology is different I guess.

All of this crap, this propaganda, is to make sure individuals make choices, disconnected and all alone, and have no chance of changing the system at all. It’s designed to stultify you and individualize your every thought, all the better to sell you something.

Some economics, ya’ll.

Even tons of people choosing not to eat, say, beef, will have zero, absolutely nada, zero, NO EFFECT on beef availability or environmental impact because beef is in a sense a luxury product for much of the world. Meaning that when cow meat meets reduced demand in one area (say North America) and the demand curve shifts to the left, in China people are going to say “FUCK YEAH BEEF” because it’s now cheaper and they will then consume more beef since it’s now affordable. Therefore, in China the demand curve shifts to the right due to the  price elasticity of demand and bam, you are right back where you were before. This is and will definitely happen with most meat, absent enormous systemic changes that have nothing to do with individuals making disconnected decisions like this.

Note this isn’t true of all products, merely those that are in demand but that many people can’t (yet) afford. Unfortunately, or fortunately, meat and beef is one of those products.