My tablet bailed on me, and I had more thoughts.
This was something I'd been brooding about for a few days, seeing how the climate change issue is also about beating back the vegan propaganda that will literally kill us all. (And I'm not even being funny here!)
But I've never read anything that indicates veganism cracks more than 4-5% of the population. No matter how trendy it is. And for once, this is not only a accurate put-down, it's also a indicator of the dream world many of our systems are based on.
The only thing I know about restaurant economics is you don't design a menu for 5% of your potential population of customers.
There's plenty of outright scams about nutrition and eating going on everywhere. Science will (eventually) take the wheel back for a while. But in the meantime, we can't go over the cliff with unsustainable food supply decisions.
Maybe, after all, instincts will save us. Because the crisis with vegan dishes replacing vegetarian ones showed the motivations of the respective camps. I've always said I respect vegetarians because for some increasingly dicey months I was one of them.
Vegetarians and omnivores and even well-behaved carnivores can eat at the same table. But the vegans won't join us. That tablecloth has touched meat, in a seven degrees of Kevin Bacon kind of way.
And we won't eat their food. In the end, they will lose, but so much mayhem can still be avoided.