How does the "saving my animals" really work?

My point is that people will not continue to buy meat in increasing amounts beyond a certain price. If the price falls below a certain level, people won't buy more meat, because they already can buy all the meat they want.

Yes, but we're not likely to reach that point any time soon, because there are literally billions of poor people who would gladly start buying more meat.

Do you really not see that reducing the amount of people who buy meat will eventually result in less meat being produced?

It would need to be extremely sudden and big- literally billions of people going vegetarian overnight.

Or are you agruing that at this point, a reduce in people in the western world who buy meat will reduce the price of meat, and then developing countries will make up the difference, so it would be pointless to try?

It's pointful to be vegetarian for other reasons; I'm just saying the economic argument isn't rooted in very sound logic.

I don't really understand your problem with thinking that less people buying meat is a good thing.

See that's where you're not following me. You going vegetarian isn't going to reduce the number of meat eaters because the price reduction will induce others to consume more meat. Obviously there's a logical maximum to this, but we're not gonna reach that for a while, if ever. Literally billions of people would have to be vegetarian for there to be a significant impact on a global scale (the smaller the scope, the fewer people you need- a couple hundred million Americans going vegetarian would shrink the American meat market, although that would in all likelihood just cause the Chinese to eat more meat. But at least the American meat market would shrink).

So, yes, fewer meat eaters is a good thing, but unintuitively, you not eating meat is unlikely to help, indeed, it might actually hurt for some decades before others catch up.

Therefore the solution to solving animal murder is to make animal murder illegal.

/r/vegetarian Thread Parent