• capital@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    Unfortunately, I don’t think that’s true. Here’s some US data I found with one quick search.

    To add to that, as underdeveloped areas become more modern and income levels increase, it tends to follow that meat consumption increases along with it.

    I would be very happy to be proven wrong on this.

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      1 month ago

      Sorry, I meant to say it’s slowing down, not trending down as I wrote originally. Most stats show this trend.

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      1 month ago

      I imagine costs would be the main thing driving down consumption if anything. Until we subsidize alternatives like we do meat, and the prices of meat alternatives are cheaper, people will have incentives to eat real meat.

      It would cost us less to subsidize them long term, and it would lower costs of meat… And help the environment. Wins all around, yet people will vote blindly against it.