If people didn't buy cheap meat, there wouldn't be any on the shop shelves. Seems simple, doesn't it?
Unfortunately, nothing is black and white.
Same goes with almost every product. Cheap every day gadgets and electronics that do not last. We complain about it but nevertheless keep buying shitty products. Cheap clothes, cheap plastic containers, cheap furniture, cheap TVs... We as in people generally. Not all but too many.
There's enough food in the world for everyone, but not everyone can access it
https://reliefweb.int/report/world/theres-enough-food-world-everyone-not-everyone-can-access-it
This article sums the above article pretty well:
In a world with more than enough food to feed everybody, despotic governmental brutality and stupidity are once again causing famines.
https://reason.com/2022/06/17/world-food-supplies-are-enough-to-feed-everyone
It's not the farmers that are greedy. Farming is hard work and most aren't actually payed what they deserve. It's the people, companies that distribute the grain or prevent distributing it, the ones that determine the prices to consumers and the ones hoarding grain. Wars, climate change. There are so many who have too much food and so many who have nothing.
But to think of this from the animal industry aspect, if we would think that there's not enough food in the world it makes no sense at all to first grow grain to feed the animals that we then eat. It would make more sense to eat that grain meant for the animals. That's my food industry point.
Majority of European crops feeding animals and cars, not people
Besides, many people, me included, do eat too much meat. Although I don't eat as much meat as the average European or a Finn for that matter, I do eat meat more than I should.
https://www.theworldcounts.com/challenges/consumption/foods-and-beverages/world-consumption-of-meat
Finns: https://yle.fi/a/3-10915602
I guess by now (2023) on average Finns eat about 80 to 90 kg meat per year per person. Let's make it 85 kg. And I think that's a huge amount! It's about 230 grams per day and that's a medium to large size stake in a restaurant here. On average I eat that amount of meat perhaps in a week! So that means that when you count all the Finns who do not eat meat at all and people who eat relatively small amounts like I do, there are people who eat huge amounts of meat. 500 g or 1 kg or more per day and that sounds really sickening every way I think of it.
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