The main issue is that while a subset of the West are giving up meat, the consumption of meat is increasing in developing countries which is a typical trend as countries get richer. Also, there is a subset of Westerners increasing their meat consumption massively because of idiotic social media trends, but hopefully that is temporary.

I’m hoping that plant-based meat and/or cell-based meat eventually match or exceed meat in quality and price, but we are not quite there yet. Not that I’d eat anything that smells or tastes like meat personally, but people seem to be addicted to it.

People online are actually “real” people as well (assuming they are not bots) so yeah, at least some subset care. Do I care personally? Not in the slightest.

It’d also complex, expensive, and takes many years to build.

I think it’s interesting that the terms are predominately slur form too, which you’d expect to be more common amongst conservatives.

I consider pet ownership to be too widespread in general because it causes a massive drain on resources (and on local wildlife) while we are in a climate crisis. An even in richer countries, pets are often neglected by their owners causing widespread suffering to the pets themselves.

And I say this as someone that likes and gets on with cats and dogs; I just think there are too many of them.

Availability heuristic. Media reports are sensationalist and easily brought to mind, consequently it is perceived as more frequently occurring than in reality.

There’s also a SearxNG Lemmy engine although you’ll probably have to self-host it unless a public instance has configured it. Failing that, site:lemmy.world should work in most cases.