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‘The big story of the 21st century’: is this the most shocking documentary of the year?
(www.theguardian.com)
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Disappointing the directors don't fully reject consumption of animals, but not surprising since we can't even covince people to wear a mask when they're sick.
Foregoing meat completely is one way to eat less meat.
Anyway, your argument is a perfect example of "don't let perfect be the enemy of good." It will be much easier to convince people to become vegetarian or vegan in the future if they first get used to not eating meat with every meal/every day.
I don't mean to equate anything here, but do you think that would have been an effective strategy for social change in other movements?
Like: "What if we just did a little slavery? It'll be much easier to convince slave owners to give up slavery if they got used to having just a few slaves."
Do you think that would have been an effective strategy instead of calling for complete abolition?
Once again, I'm not trying to draw a comparison here, you could substitute any past social movement, but the logical structure should hold regardless.
The logical structure doesn't hold. People don't eat meat for profit, they eat it for preference. You can't ask slave owners to be slightly less profit-seeking. You can ask people to tolerate small sacrifices like eating less meat.
Whatever the case, individual solutions to structural problems are not and have never worked, it's a capitalist lie. I intentionally said "ask people to tolerate small sacrifices" instead of "make small sacrifices". A reduction in meat consumption has to be imposed, whether at the distributor or the supplier.