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From an environmentalist standpoint, I get the headline, but from a vegan perspective, it's like saying "Stabbing just 10% less people could help protect blood"
How about we just don't stab people??
The most effective policies are often not fancy ones. For example, if you want to fix housing isolation, you do not isolate a few houses very well, but you try to improve the least isolated houses and get them all to decent levels.
Getting everyone off meat will not happen. But if you want to reduce the amount of meat eaten the most, then you want to try to get meat eaters to consume less meat. Not a few people to consume none.
I don't give a shit about eating meat, I care about murdering individuals I love. You can't trick people into not committing atrocity. It will never work. They've already been thoroughly tricked by someone much more clever and devious than we. That's not a contest we can win. The only thing we have are our principles. It worked on us, it has worked on others, and it will continue to work.