Meat-eating’s damage to global climates, forests and wildlife is forcing radical control measures onto political agendas — including criminalising it and imposing penally-high taxation.
At the same time, technology is on the brink of replacing animal flesh with lab-produced meats, and the plant-based food industries are already making huge inroads into meat and dairy consumption.
Consumer shifts are already being felt extensively in the dairy industry with many closures, including the US’s biggest milk company filing for bankruptcy. These are pushing meat producers towards what one influential report, by the independent technology think tank RethinkX, predicts will lead to the collapse of the meat and dairy industries within 11 years.