I stopped eating meat about 8 years ago and think about this almost every day. It's far worse than just pandemic evolution by keeping too many animals too close to wild animals, to each other and to humans.

- Climate change

- Antibiotic resistance

- Peak phosphorus

- Nutrition availability

- Water usage

- Pollution of air, water and soil (lakes of pig shit sprayed into the air)

somewhere down the list is animal cruelty, but most people are selfish, unconvinced and don't care if it happens elsewhere as long as they don't have to watch it.

If humans are to survive, meat (and resource-intensive substitutes) and fossil fuels have to go bye-bye because they're too risky in the long-term.

It's our collective karma playing out, so to speak...

I eat meat occasionally, but I still think meat should become a luxury food by imposing very high taxes.

eating less meat -- i think it'll be easier to get people to give up their guns than to give up their bacon