To me, eating meat is akin to chewing a sneaker, and then I get a stomachache. Over the years I've developed a respect for my diet, and mass-animal farming is surely one of the reasons. I don't question people about why they eat meat, and I would like the same courtesy in return. T hank you, Susan, for your article about perhaps one of the most important issues of our lifetimes. You addressed many aspects, sometimes poetically, many I'm still mulling.
Nothing lasts forever.
This is a hard but simple truth, and life actually becomes easier when you accept it. It is the nature of exponential processes that will make the first option possible and desirable. There are more scientists alive today than in the sum of all history. There will be more change in technology in the next 50 years than since the dawn of fire. Many will doubt and worry and be angry over the problems that will arise, but a few will go beyond and fix the problems.