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jasusquisto t1_irvwel3 wrote

Reply to comment by OkraSlush in New Zealand proposes taxing cow burps to reduce emissions by TDYDave2

This happenned in the Netherlands first and it's gonna happen everywhere. People really do not associate farms and food as easily as you would expect. They think food os still gonna produce itself by magic. Plus , the alternative is going to be importing food from somewhere else and pretend we are green has we are doong with pretty much everything else already

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YpsilonY t1_irw638t wrote

People also do not associate agriculture and climate change as easily as you would expect. If we don't reduce these emissions drastically, producing food will become a whole lot harder, and therefor more expensive, over the coming decades.

So what will it be? Medium price increase now, or increasingly larger price increases over the coming decades?

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scottish_elena t1_irw84mk wrote

ok, first off, more than half of the food we produce is wasted because corporations would rather let people starve that let them eat food that they are not able to sell.

second, not because we reduce production of meat it means we dont have anything alse to eat, you know that alternatives to cows exist right?

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jasusquisto t1_irw9277 wrote

Yeah i do , and those alternatives are the biggest part of the waste you mentioned. Now , will corporations say "hey now that people are buying more of this , i'm not wasting so i can actually be cheaper than before" or " due to the higher demand i have to jack up prices" ?

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scottish_elena t1_iryavef wrote

Do you have a source to back up the claim that most of the wasted food can be considered "an alternative to meat"? and the hypotetical problem of prices can be fixed by supporting worker unions along with goverment regulations, its not hard to find solution to problems corporations made up for profits.

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