Steve wrote:
> Initially, yes less meat would be consumed. The increase in supply will
> push the price back down, perhaps even below the pre-disease levels
> encouraging more meat consumption.
Actually there may be some truth to this despite world population growing by
10,000 people per minute. Technological innovation resulting in cost
reductions will increase the supply of cheap meat. It is feasible to use
chemotrophic bacteria to build up an ecosystem that is not dependent on
photosynthesis. In theory there is no limit on the food supply.
However the evil problem is distribution which plaques the worlds poorest
nations like Haiti for instance. The is not much benefit in the 'free
market' if the meat cannot be distributed to the ultimate end, the consumer
who is may be a nursing mother in Haiti, or an orphan in Hait. Most 'supply'
constraints are a result of poor distribution.
One other thing is that the market analogy regarding distributional effects
is ideological. The reason being is that there is no logical nor is there
any moral reason why a Haitian child must starve or go hungry simply because
that child was born in the wrong place nor the wrong time. All children have
the potential to become great scientists and artists, or even very simply
good teachers and parents. So the ideological belief that the free market
system is moral and efficien is - well purely ideological - a moral based on
a 'propositional attitude' and that is okay but it does not solve the
Haitian child's life support system issues.
addios
Foster to Steven Bissell
John to everyone else
PS Not offence intended but Steven prefers me to use my last name which is
Gaelic for forest and forests take care....
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