Oh, they have no way to stop it with incremental regulations. Incredible monitoring would be practical for them, but the inescapable part of biosecurity for animal raising is that the animals are killed (before they’re killed at slaughter). It becomes a regular and constant loss. Without monitoring, and with regular bailouts, what you end up is a system that breeds massive numbers of soon-to-be-killed animals in order to fill up holes in the ground with their corpses. The obvious fact that everyone is shying away from is that the sector needs to be shrunk or closed down, much like the wild animal farms in China (see: SARS-CoV-2).
look I dont think the author is wrong, I just dont think americans will give up beef as they like to believe they still live in the frontier
It’s not really an option. The real question is if people will be fine with promoting famine (could be far away) instead of eating rice and beans.
Here’s an example from about a century ago: https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/troy-vettese-do-not-let-them-eat-meat/
did you read the article? the author writes that the country has to move away from animal protein if they hope to stem the tide of pandemics
