>>939463104
>implying farmers are retarded
If you give them the incentive, they will do it. The problem is that farmers are fucked over and forced into providing a lot for very little profit, compared to what they produce. Food stores often sell products for over 15000% of what they paid the farmers. What the stores also buy decides what the farmers produce. A farmer isn't going to grow something the stores don't buy.
Because of these factors, the farmers are forced to produce as much as possible of whatever the stores are requesting. This destroys the environment, and hurts everyone. It hurts the farmers, the consumers, the animals, and the local population being polluted by the local meat manufacturers.
What you eat decides what the stores buy in, which affects what the farmers make. And, of course, legislation can leverage things in favor of a pivot. The farmers will provide what sells. They don't just produce shit that doesn't sell, just because they have strong opinions. You got to give them a way out as well. A way to transition. This last one is the hardest for the large meat factory "farms", that aren't really farms, because they're just meat factories. It's hard to transition a death camp into something not death-campy.
