This isn't new. The term "Environmental Justice" was being shopped around as early as the 70's and really took off under Clinton in the 90's with the idea that minority communities received a great brunt of the fallout from environmental spills and hazards. There are really two schools of thought in the environmental community now. One is at the very least marketed as aggressive anti-capitalist spiteful hatred of big manufacturing. Think Greta Thunberg and the whiniest vegan you can imagine. The other is a paper pusher whose job is dependent on navigating the overly confusing array of various agencies that makeup the EPA or European equivalent. There are a few though who tthink the whole system needs to get scrapped and start from new.
There's at least one other school of thought. The founder of Impossible Foods has sort of a "green capitalist" approach. His thought is that if his product is indistinguishable (or preferred) over real meat, and cheaper, people will voluntarily go green.
What's funny is that it's my understanding that impossible meat has a much larger environmental footprint than any kind of cruelty free meat, but it is "cheaper".
This isn't new. The term "Environmental Justice" was being shopped around as early as the 70's and really took off under Clinton in the 90's with the idea that minority communities received a great brunt of the fallout from environmental spills and hazards. There are really two schools of thought in the environmental community now. One is at the very least marketed as aggressive anti-capitalist spiteful hatred of big manufacturing. Think Greta Thunberg and the whiniest vegan you can imagine. The other is a paper pusher whose job is dependent on navigating the overly confusing array of various agencies that makeup the EPA or European equivalent. There are a few though who tthink the whole system needs to get scrapped and start from new.
There's at least one other school of thought. The founder of Impossible Foods has sort of a "green capitalist" approach. His thought is that if his product is indistinguishable (or preferred) over real meat, and cheaper, people will voluntarily go green.
What's funny is that it's my understanding that impossible meat has a much larger environmental footprint than any kind of cruelty free meat, but it is "cheaper".