<story><title>Treating beef like coal would make a big dent in greenhouse-gas emissions</title><url>https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2021/10/02/treating-beef-like-coal-would-make-a-big-dent-in-greenhouse-gas-emissions</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>voldacar</author><text>It feels like we are headed into a new medieval era of sumptuary laws and moral decrees promulgated by a decentralized international clerical-academic class. I don&amp;#x27;t think I like it very much</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tuatoru</author><text>Moralizing can work, though. Recall slavery, child labor, feminism, equal rights, welfare (,healthcare outside the USA).&lt;p&gt;Plant based meat substitutes will improve (via the production learning curve and competition) if there is enough demand.&lt;p&gt;(According to this article that attracted much comment[1] a few days ago, though, artificial meat is a non-starter.)&lt;p&gt;1. &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=28621288&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=28621288&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Treating beef like coal would make a big dent in greenhouse-gas emissions</title><url>https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2021/10/02/treating-beef-like-coal-would-make-a-big-dent-in-greenhouse-gas-emissions</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>voldacar</author><text>It feels like we are headed into a new medieval era of sumptuary laws and moral decrees promulgated by a decentralized international clerical-academic class. I don&amp;#x27;t think I like it very much</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wumpus</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m pretty sure that a carbon tax was never considered in the Middle Ages.</text></comment>