I find it worth noting that, as opposed to COVID, this time around it’s affecting rural parts of the US first, instead of urban areas. It’s the rural areas that, generally, didn’t take COVID seriously.
I wonder if this time around they’re going to stick to their guns about how simple protective measures somehow infringe on their freedumbs, or if a little prudence will suddenly become “the American Way.”
I imagine that the conspiracy theories about the Biden administration deliberately infecting cows with H5N1 over 5G networks have already started.
If you want to be vegan, that’s an option available to you today.
If you want everyone else to be vegan, I don’t think that that’s likely to happen unless there are preferable options available. If someone can grow steaks in a lab and make them cost-effective and have an equally-good experience as a chunk of a cow, then sure.
I don’t think that that’s impossible. But I also don’t think that the technology is there yet in 2024. My guess is that there’s gonna be some heavy lifting from genetic engineering companies that hasn’t happened yet. When we get to the point that we can just go make a cow milk tree or an egg vine or something on that level, then sure.
Or we can just normalize not eating an entire steak every day