The FAO estimates that one-fifth of all global greenhouse emissions are the result of meat production. Meat consumption is supposed to double by 2050. The head of the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has stepped forward to say that people should really cut down -- not necessarily cut out, just cut down -- their meat consumption. Of course, pity the politician who takes up the call and tries to refashion our subsidies and agricultural policies that make meat artificially cheap and other food sources needlessly expensive. Trying to preempt global catastrophe by resetting policy incentives is the sort of thing that makes you an elitist who hates small towns.
