--- Ray Lanier <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Hello Steve,
>
> Of course an increase in the price of meat *logically* would induce
> consumers to try the vegetarian menu. And, as everyone knows, once you
> try
> it you like it because it tastes better and is healthier. So in the
> long
> run one could expect that in a rational society there would be a
> "permanent"
> reduction in the demand for meat! And all that range land could be
Not necessarily. There have been similar beef cycles before and without
the long run effect you describe.
[snip]
> Jeez, you don't suppose that is what the PETA spokesperson had in mind??
> !!
> :-)
For some reason I doubt it.
Steve
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