RE: Climate Change and the Demand for Meat: The catalysts for Insecurity in Nigeria
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It's a domino effect. If you decrease the consumption of meat you also decrease the demand for plant sources to feed these cattle. Growing food sources for these cattle takes up land and due to global warming, fertile lands become fewer, and cattle also competes with space for the production.
The possible solutions will probably come from verticle farming, discovering a viable plant food source that's fast to grow and takes up less space. Its unlikely the demand for meat would curve down with population growth as a constant problem. The only alternative I see is finding a viable efficient way to grow food faster with less space and costs so that even a common household could use to gain income from.
Perhaps an integrated approach would be better. The amount of degraded lands due to overgrazing is massive to remove meat demand out of the equation.
Needs a strong political will and a sense of responsibility at the individual level to see how great the problem is long term. The problem with seeing things in the broader perspective is that the vision can be difficult to communicate to someone that struggles to live within the day. These cattles serve as someone's livelihood and that someone can be struggling economically. They may see the problem but are powerless to do anything if there is no financial backing for the initiative and that's another can of worms most developing countries struggle with.
I totally agree with you. There's a time the senate debated the establishment of grazing areas for cattle but the masses kicked against it due to lack of trust in the government.