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There are far more poor people than there are rich people, which is why food prices are common precursors to riots and coups. The idea isn't feasible because the poor will notice when they are forced to eat beans and rice, while their masters get to have steak. Unfairness breeds resentment. If you want to destabilize society a good way to do it is to make food access even more unequal.
This is ignoring what they actually said, which is a great deal more nuanced than the perhaps overly reductive way you're presenting it here. They very explicitly address setting these rates to reduce meat consumption in low income brackets, not prevent it entirely, presumably with the intention of adjusting those rates to see a steady reduction of meat's share of the average diet without causing undue hardship as people transition to a plant based diet.
Again I do understand what you're saying, I just think it's a bit of an absurd thing to earnestly argue. Every solution does not need to address every issue in society - inequality can be addressed independently and the more pressing concern is reducing the harm done to both animals and the climate. Theirs is a good solution - it is not perhaps ideal, but it is more feasible than any other proposal I've yet seen.
(aside from all that, the argument that their plan might be the inciting incident that sparks a broad proletarian upheaval of society is a really poor argument if you're trying to convince me we shouldn't do this...)
When meat becomes unaffordable, it's banned for the poor. A partial ban is still a ban, if they're forced to only have meat once or twice a week that will still create resentment - but it wouldn't be a proletarian revolution. It'd be a reactionary counterrevolution, with Nazis (backed by ranchers and meat industry money) screaming "LOOK AT WHAT THEY TOOK FROM YOU!!!1" as they march vegans like me into gas chambers.
Okay, I think this has gone beyond the point of where it needs to be treated with any degree of seriousness. I've never encountered a vegan that was more concerned with the social inequality of the poor not being allowed to eat meat than they were with people eating meat at all before, so congrats this has been a unique experience.
I'm slightly exaggerating, but it would absolutely empower reactionary conspiracy theories and give them ammunition to draw disaffected poor whites into their echo chambers. There's already a persistent conspiracy theory that the (((global elites))) are conspiring to stop white people from eating meat (to make them weaker and less masculine) and this would just empower them.
Food prices are the #1 way governments collapse. You can't just price poor people out of eating meat and expect it to work. They'll hate you for it. They'll want revenge. It would be a coup lead by the military, or a counterrevolution lead by businesses/ranchers.
I fail to see how your counterproposal to outright ban meat would not lead to this same scenario (probably faster).
Also, you're ignoring the option to provide a divedend (monthly, if you like) to citizens from the tax revenue to offset increased meat prices. With the dividend, the poor would be largely unaffected, and mostly the result would be the middle class reducing their meat consumption from excessive to moderate.
Also also, you keep talking about how this scheme bans poor people from eating meat. But I have to say, this reminds me of the criticism that gas taxes hurt poor people since now they have to pay more for gas - ignoring the fact that many poor people simply don't drive cars, because they are too poor to afford them. And so a gas tax spent on improving transit ends up helping the poorest, because what people need is transportation, not cheap gas.
Also also also, if this sort of scheme were ever implemented, I highly doubt it would result in widespread food riots like you see in a developing nation when they are literally starving in the streets. Worst case, it would result in the people who implemented it being voted out of office and having the policy rolled back. And with a dividend program and a gradual pricing rollout, this would be even less likely.
Meatless Mondays happened. It's definitely possible to ration meat.
Now, see my other reply to you for why I think rebates are workable, but complicated.
Confused. I remember this being a volutary phenomenon with individual participation. Maybe a few university cafeterias participated. Not a government mandate for no meat sales on Mondays.
It was more voluntary during WW1.
In WW2 there was an explicit food rationing program, and though there were voluntary elements the Red Stamp program allotted a certain number of points for meats/fat/butter. Each person was allowed a certain amount of points weekly in the form of war ration stamps, and the points expired if they weren't used. This was done not only to help feed the war effort, but also to prevent the riots that would have happened if meat became too expensive for poor people to eat.
WWII rationing wasn't meatless mondays, I don't... buddy.
Whelp, I made a mistake, now nothing I say matters and you automatically win the conversation.
Come on. my point still stands even if I misremembered the exact name of the program. Rationing works, when it's fair.
Why not just own the mistake, instead of presenting a totally separate concept as though you were correct in the first place? That would be fine, we all screw up. Getting hostile when someone gets exasperated because you're trying to cover for a mistake in a clunky way is the opposite of productive.
(edit: You've edited your comment since I wrote this to include the second line. No, the two are extremely different programs that are not at all comparable and your meaning changes completely when moving between the two.)
Why not just point out that I made a mistake, instead of making-
-snide comments like that? It was clearly meant to humiliate me for making a mistake.
You mocked me, so I got hostile.
No that was meant to criticize your behavior. If you want to be treated with respect, reciprocate in kind. Seriously, that was an insulting thing for you to have done in the first place. People were engaging with you more or less from an assumption that you were serious, even though what you're saying is pretty absurd - but you're not going to give them credit for being sincere with you, and now you're trying to present like I did a bad thing?
Buddy.
So we can't do vegan social policies because the... white supremacists might use that as evidence of a secret jewish conspiracy to stop them eating meat in order to make them less manly.
And that's your real concern.
We can't make it illegal for poor people specifically to eat meat because they'll be recruited by fascists to overthrow the government. A ban has to be all or nothing, or it will create resentment.
okay, nobody has proposed that as a solution. Also that's... insane.
Making meat too expensive for the poor does, in fact, ban poor people specifically from eating meat.
... Is this a prank? Am I taking the bait? What is happening.
If meat is too expensive for someone to buy, then they can't buy it.
If someone tries to eat meat they didn't pay for, they get arrested.
Therefore, making meat too expensive for the poor is a ban with extra steps.
What part of this do you disagree with?
Once again that's overly reductive to the point that it's completely departed from anything resembling the topic as presented by everyone else. And I'm still confused about how the hypothetical jewish conspiracy fits into this.
The topic, as presented, was to make meat more expensive so people ate less. I say that's effectively a ban on poor people eating meat. I don't really know what part you disagree with, why you disagree with it, or how you think poor people would be able to eat meat they can't afford. You're going to need to clarify even a tiny little bit or else I don't know how I can even talk to you.
There's an active conspiracy that global elites want to take away real meat and make everyone eat lab grown meat. Ranchers and business owners in the meat industry are especially fond of spreading these conspiracies to lobby for bans on ban lab grown meat.