To believe that eating meat should be illegal?

No, they'd just eat the ultra-processed crap, because a lot of people are really busy and/or don't have the time/inclination to cook everything from scratch, let alone go out and catch it themselves. Plus if you live in urban areas, which most of us do, you'd be restricted to catching rats or foxes. Yummy.

For some people that isn't enough. There are plenty of articles about people returning to meat after years of veganism and doctors unable to help with their ill health. If only it was as simple as a tablet.

I wish we could eliminate dairy farming. Before anyone asks, yes I do eat dairy products, but I wish I didn't and I wish nobody did. Eliminating dairy farming would stop us!

I also wish we could change the mindset that meat should be cheap. It is impossible to produce meat that is both ethical and cheap.

@BySpoonyBlueScroller If the world decided to become vegetarian tomorrow all the farm animals would be killed, they take up a lot of land and resources and cause many environmental issues, such as methane production. It is so nieve to think if we stopped eating meat we would just let the animals go free. We would kill them and build houses on the farm land.

What a ludicrous post!

They obviously want others to write their dissertation!

If you can’t afford to eat ethically sourced meat with higher welfare conditions then the answer is simply to eat less meat, not continue to support the mass suffering of millions of animals caught up in unethical and cruel mass production farming.

The truth is people eat far too much meat, more than they need and more than is good for them. If increasing welfare standards drives a cost increase then a corresponding reduction in consumption can only be a good thing. For our health as much as anything else.

Awa bile yer heid min.

This is beyond childish and room temp IQ thinking. This place is such a playground at times.

A more mature approach would surely be to evaluate the argument itself? Not just reflexively oppose anything someone says because your tribal instincts are so overwhelming you can't help it. Hitler was a veggie who was keen on organic farming. Does this mean all veggies are nazis? Or we all need to eat the most wretchedly treated animals just to stick it to Hitler?

Sounds super healthy. Can't wait!

You do realise veganism destroy the environment a lot more than eating meat right?

A world without milk and all its derivatives (cheese, yoghurt) might be a bit difficult, surely??

No, many people need meat for health, weight control.

I'm one of these I'm ashamed to say. I'm working on it, but it's a work in progress.

We've cut down on the meat we eat and try to be more aware of where it's coming from etc, but we haven't yet fully given up.

It's surprising how ingrained eating meat is and how difficult it was to think of alternatives some days. I'm also not really a fan of the "meatless meat" options as they just don't appeal to me at all, when I have a meat free day (which is often) I don't feel the need to pretend I'm eating bacon... but also when I do really want a bacon sandwich (rarely, but it's one of the few meat options I must admit I do really enjoy) I want an actual bacon sandwich.

I don't think making eating meat illegal will happen and I'm not sure it should to be honest. But I would fully support moves towards heavily reducing meat consumption - making people more aware of the process, stricter rules and regulations around animal treatment, moving away from massive industrial farms and deforestation for grazing etc.

😂 thank you for the laugh. Making meat illegal to eat, pull the other one.

If that were true, how are vegans surviving? I have been vegan for over 25 years. My children are lifelong vegans, and thriving.

Deforestation. As if that isn't going to happen after eating meat is banned and animals are no longer farmed BUT more arable land is needed for growing fruit and veg. @BySpoonyBlueScroller are you aware of what is happening in Mexico? #unholyguacamole #deforestation #climatechange

The UK isn't known for producing, you know, chickpeas and kidney beans etc as they need a longer growing season than we have. But let's ignore bee fertilisation and the air/sea miles used in transporting all the fruit and veg needed and make veganism great again.

Still think banning meat would be a good idea OP?

I think we're moving away from working dogs anyway, aren't we?

I think lab grown meat will be available though....it's already being used in pet food I think? I'm sure I saw something about it on the news.

Let’s follow that up with forced sterilisation and discontinue the human race. Humans are the cause of climate change (at the rate it is going) and we are the source of the animal cruelty.

(I am of course being facetious)

Would working dogs be allowed under this theoretical regime ?

Veganism ruin so many people’s health, especially here in the north. It’s making people malnourished long term. You can see it in their faces and their protruding eyes. I will never go back to veganism or vegetarianism, it ruined me.

I get enough protein and iron from lentils, beans, eggs, dairy, seeds and nuts. As do millions of veggies from other cultures.

But if humans are not designed to eat meat why would people need this?

Not asking you specifically

Where’s it all from? ✈️