Eating meat will be illegal in 50 years

Daily Debate #552: "Eating meat will be illegal in 50 years". You are arguing FOR the motion. Your opponent: Peter Singer.

If not meat, then what will be the better alternative? A purely meat-based diet is not entirely healthy on its own, which can be equally applied to any known dietary alternative. For the short term, one can argue that X has been very beneficial to the human body given Y, but in the long run, the human body cannot fully sustain itself if dependent on one nutrient but deprived of the other.

You're conceding the real argument here. You're saying no single food source is complete—meat included. So why defend it as irreplaceable? Humans thrive on plant-based diets right now, today, with proper planning. Your "but what about nutrients" is a diversion. We already have the alternatives; we just choose meat for taste and habit, not necessity. If legality hinges on health, processed meat's carcinogenic profile gives regulators the knife they need. Where's your case that meat is uniquely essential?

I concede

Good. Then you're actually arguing meat won't be illegal because people will fight tooth and nail to keep it, not because it's nutritionally necessary. That's honest. So the real debate is political will, not science. What makes you think democracy will protect an industry killing the planet faster than we can adapt?