3-10-2020: My family and I are sitting in our kitchen having a lunch. It is all vegetarian and almost vegan.
When I look at my dish, I try to remember when I ate my last steak. It was a long time ago.
Today I am non vegetarian. But I try to it meat less frequent. But there will be a process over the next years that I go without any meat.
It will be not that hard to chance eating habit. All the people around me will chance their behaviour. I won’t demand on vegetarian food on dinners with friends or family. But this won’t be a problem in the medium term. Meat won’t be so important in the future for all the society in industrialized countries.The people will learn to live without.
There will be lots of food scandals the next years. Those are often related to meat. And in general the scandals bring people to think about their food and health.
Prices on the globalized food market will rise for a long term. This is based on rising food and especially meat demand from huge countries like
China or India. Natural catastrophes cause crop failure. There will be more droughts.
Resources needed for food production will be rare. There are less water reservoirs, commodity prices will rise and therefore prices for fertiliser, too. Deposits for fossil fuels like coal, oil, and gas run short. This lead to expensive fuel for farm machines etc.. A huge amount of land will be needed for renewable energy sources.
All this facts result in a social change. Companies will realise the potential of vegetarian food. New products will become accepted. They invent more elaborated vegetarian steaks and schnitzels for people who need a long time to change their behaviour.
Companies start to produce artificial meat, being much more efficient, but there won’t be that much demand for it.
For my kids meat will be irrelevant. There won’t be meat for lunch at home or kindergarten. And it will have been easy to chance fried products like fish sticks or chicken nuggets to a vegetarian basis ;)
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