Why can't we all just go veg?

 Based on this blog post from big picture nutritionist Lawrence Haddad, "'Eat less meat' is seen as a way of improving the health of the planet and its people. However, eating less meat would harm the health of some individuals in low-income contexts, especially children under five and low-income populations...." The bottom line is that needs of consumers and producers both are different in richer countries than they are in poorer.

Winning the price war against animal meat

These few sentences, from Vox, say a lot: "The chicken industry has managed to cut all their corners, they don’t pay their environmental bills, they don’t pay for a lot of the public health hazards they cause. They have managed to produce a product that is just artificially cheap and hard to compete with....More important [than direct subsidies] are invisible forms of subsidization like not enforcing worker’s rights, exempting factory farms from animal cruelty laws, not requiring companies to engage in environmental cleanup, and not restricting practices — like antibiotic overuse — that impose costs on the whole world."

The upshot? Hopefully the meat alternative companies can achieve returns to scale and start getting their own products to be price competitive to these artifically low prices!