Many problems can be solved by dramatically reducing cattle population and consuming more poultry.

THE single universal defining trait of humans is our refusal to be bound by the limits set for us by our biological past.

But regardless, the alternative to an economically catastrophic meat-centric diet isn't starvation and malnutrition come on. It's not even vegetarianism per se.

Most humans most places through most of time have eaten much much less meat than we currently do. They've eaten a lot more plants and yes bugs and lichen and seaweed and shit than we do. We don't need to idealize that or try to return to it, but we should remember it.

We are extreme outliers among humans who have lived, in this particular way, among others. We should consider the consequences of occupying this extreme and choose where we stand with it deliberately now that we understand what it is.