Meat's probably never going away, so is there a way we can incentivize the production of cleaner meat?
I don't even mean the lab-grown stuff, I mean free-range and cage-free and such. Wouldn't paying the premium for some theoretical "better meat" encourage meat producers to clean up their acts, instead of catering to people who eat meat because it's cheap and easy to cook?
This is actually something I've been willing to bet on with the right odds (although it's not really practical). I think that there's a good chance that all fast-food chains will be meatless within my lifetime.
It would take one really serious mad-cow-ish health scare across a few major national chains to really reduce people's faith in fast food meat. It's unlikely, but not THAT unlikely, in my opinion.
Yes, by making the retail price reflect the true environmental costs of producing it.
And if that means that the supply is drastically curtailed (as it inevitably will be, as we increasingly recognize that the environmental cost is simply too high) - then so be it.