https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/25/business/drought-farmers-cows/index.html
With smaller herds and fewer breeding cows, the next two years could spell higher beef prices for consumers. The US Department of Agriculture, or USDA, is projecting a 7% decline in beef production next year.
Some of my vegan friends: "finally the world will switch to vegan".
Me, a depressed communist: "rich people with happily pay more for beef and let the poor starve"
it's almost like individual consumer behavior is impotent against capitalism
Unrelated, but :im-vegan:. I still think it's worthwhile. I just don't think that economics will force the world to go vegan.
Everyone else on the block has kicked a baby. Why can't you just accept that not kicking a baby will have very little impact on the baby kicking marketplace?
Yeah, but one is moralising and the other is material analysis.
Like, if your response to worsening conditions is "now is the time to get people to live the lifestyle I think they should" them you're not actually doing anything besides promoting your consumer identity.
You're literally saying "have you considered just adapting to the worsening conditions of life under capitalism".
I'm seeing "your response", and "you're literally saying", where quite frankly I was doing the exact opposite. Unless you're referring to my lib friends.
Yes, sorry. It was meant in response to that argument, not you directly.
Fair enough, sorry. I guess I'm expecting people to attack me the vegan.
Rich people will continue having beef but fewer cows is still fewer cows.
Rich people will buy the beef and the middle class will have a mental breakdown, ushering in the fascist coup.