The farmer is not getting the cost benefit. I suspect the global warming cult is lobbying to keep meat prices ridiculously high to curtail public consumption and eventually public long term buying trends.
Funny thing is that it takes a larger global footprint to eat vegan than to consume an omnivorous diet. I read once that pound for pound, lettuce is four times more polluting and carbon intensive than a pound of beef.
“I read once that pound for pound, lettuce is four times more polluting and carbon intensive than a pound of beef.”
That’s new to me but I don’t doubt it. All this carbon foorprint business is insanity, first they tell you that co2 is a “pollutant” albeit a pollutant without which there would be no life, then they tell you that this fake pollutant is more of a threat to life than people who shoot innocents until they run out of rounds and then reload. On top of that you find that most of what they want to do to reduce co2 “pollution” is counterproductive by their own standards. Ethanol added to gasoline is totally counterproductive by their own measure, it takes huge amounts of water, not to mention land, fuel, herbicide, pesticide and fertilizer to produce corn and convert it to ethanol and then ten percent ethanol gives eight percent lower mpg than straight gasoline so it is a waste to even use it if it rained from the skies free. I doubt that I have the ability to invent something as crazy as putting ethanol into gasoline and I have come up with some crazy ideas without even trying.