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climate experts on vegan-driven activism: not viable. What about nixing livestock subsidies?
cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/4664992
(the audio associated to the link will air on BBC World Service again in a couple hours from now [20:00 GMT today], if anyone is on a strained internet uplink)(that’s in the past now)A panel of climate experts answered questions related to #COP28. Someone asked about the viability of an agenda to get people off animal products. IIRC, the answers basically boiled down to:
- An elected politician telling people not to eat meat would be political suicide
- Nutrition would be a problem
IMO both answers are accurate. But isn’t there an oversight in terms of subsidies? The US gives huge subsidies to farmers and that includes livestock subsidies (not sure about other countries). A politician would not get away with intervening in people’s diets but canceling livestock subsidies would not be an intervention - it would actually be non-intervention. Would that still necessarily be political suicide?
W.r.t nutriti