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That would be great, we can agree on that. The capital only seems to grow more powerful though, but the whole system is also unsustainable and therefore inherently unstable, so we'll see.
I think the changes that will bring down factory farming first will be climate change combined with resource inefficiency increasing the price (we can already see this happening), while plant based alternatives become more normalized, tasty, widely available, and cheaper relative to meat (there has been a lot of progress on these in the last 10 years, at least here in Germany).
An avian flu pandemic also seems likely at some point and would accelerate the transition.
We need to remember that the harder capitalism tightens its grip, the more contradictions it creates, and the easier it will be to raise peoples awareness.
I see that happening in the US too, and the govt subsidies are slowly disappear which has helped prop it up as long as has affordability-wise. I see eating meat quickly becoming less accessible today in the US, and like many commodities it's going to become one for the bourgeois only. The alternatives are getting better for weening people off, but there is definitely a counter-culture to it too.
I feel like there can be steps in between that we aren't utilizing while the meat industry still exists whether or not we want it. I have have had roommates that would not be happy with chicken nuggets, no fake ones would do. So I started making them myself, with a lot of vegetable filler, and eventually weened the meat down over 6 months down to <25% + a little chicken stock, and that was only from my local grocery store. I feel like if I had access to any form of actual production, I could have gone lower, about ~10% (this is when they started to notice and I had to dial it back). There were 4 of us, so we effectively had 3/4 vegetarians in the house, and I feel strongly that if vegetarians approached it like this, we could pare down the amount of actual meat intake to about 5% of what we have today rapidly, and then it'd be much much easier to entirely end meat usage because our microbiomes aren't screaming for it in the way they do now.