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You know how people who eat meat are uncomfortable about animal cruelty in farms and don't like to think about it?
It's the same here with people who think animal lives are completely equivalent to human lives. This is the logical conclusion they don't like to think about. If you had mass human death to correct for overpopulation, it would solve the food demand issue -- and if mass human death is no different from mass animal death, then this would be the fewest deaths of living things to solve the issue.
It's a common thread in these comments. You see people blaming poor farmers for being poor, and not considering the higher prices for meat alternatives and vitamin supplements. Factory processed food is the cheapest, and vegan meals are as far from that as possible. People will beat around the misanthropy, but they won't look it in the face like the population issue forces them to.
I don't know if that really holds up. I don't think we're tapped out totally in ecological terms. I'm willing to be proven wrong on that (I kind of doubt I can, alternatives are kind of under-researched as a matter of principle), but if we're not tapped out in ecological terms, then I think the main limitation on food demand would be the level of labor available for food production. i.e. more people can provide for more people. I kind of struggle to think of a scenario in which misanthropy, or, I guess lack of it, is the problem here, and not like. Mass industrialized production. I don't wanna say capitalism is the problem cause that seems kind of tropey, and it isn't really accurate, but it's certainly not helping the issue, in any case.