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I'm just glad I got to read this comment before r/vegan showed up and downvoted it into oblivion. Such is the current state of discourse around this subject on HN.

We need to eat less meat, we need to look after animals better and we need to do it in a much more eco-friendly and sustainable manner. We don't all need to go vegan. Going from one extreme to another is never the answer.

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> Going from one extreme to another is never the answer.

Why not?

Because humans are adaptable omnivores, who can survive if not thrive with just either plants or animals (cf. Carnivory diet). But most food are cultural specific, and it'd be a shame to lose most of it.

To be honest, I'm one of those waiting for my promised future superalgae and Euglina's food pills, so...

You say it'd be a shame to lost most of the cultural foods that use meat, but you want food pills?

I think meat substitutes like the Impossible Burger are more likely to preserve cultural heritage in food than a meal replacement, personally.

> We need to eat less meat

You might be interested in this submission (which got flagged so as to censor it out of the frontpage at that time): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20029519

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