#ofc lab grown meat might still allow for a very high level of meat consumption to be maintained if it keeps advancing!

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What do you think the compatibility of veganism and communism are, how would veganism slot in? I know the average Usamerican and westerner eats just an absolutely untenable amount of meat, but I'm skeptical about the practicality of trying to completely eliminate it.

as i am fond of saying, socialism is not about consumption, but about production. it is absolutely true that the current level of meat production is completely ecologically unsustainable--but 'veganism' doesn't come into the equation. veganism is a personal choice about consumption habits, not a political program. a reduction in meat consumption would take place under socialism due to the simple fact that, absent the profit motive, there would be no sensible reason for a communally owned system of agriculture operated by worker democracy to devote the amount of land and labour that are currently devoted to expensive and inefficient livestock farming. how the 'consumer' of the meat feels about it basically does not matter at all--under any socialist system of production there will simply be less meat.