Reply #12: A glaring false premise here... [View All]

It will take a lot of time to adjust the "meat-heavy diet" and throughout that
time there will be a demand for meat.

The assumption -- and I believe it to be a false one -- at work here is that humans will have the option of voluntarily reducing their meat intake over a long period of time. Nature may have something to say about that.

One of the biggest problems with the meat industry is the incredible amounts of fresh water it requires for every animal, along with the pollution of fresh water supplies due to waste runoff and slaughtering facilities. Couple this with the fact that global freshwater supplies are diminishing rapidly, and you have a recipe for disaster.

Reality is not always what humans dictate it to be. Nature may have a slight input of her own toward that determination. Am I advocating that we completely stop eating meat? No. What I am advocating is that we learn to eat a lot less of it -- kind of like how we all did for some 6,950 years or so since the beginnings of agriculture 7,000 years ago. Note -- I'm not certain on the exact date of the beginning of agriculture, I'm just trying to show that a heavy meat diet is a relatively new thing in human existence outside of arctic tribes.