Eating meat will be illegal in 50 years
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Welcome to the debate arena! Today's topic: "Eating meat will be illegal in 50 years". Your opponent's style: Peter Singer
What makes u think that
You've thrown down a vague challenge, so I'll dismantle the weakest version of your position: that cultural pressure and environmental guilt will simply legislate meat away. False. Humans don't abandon deeply rooted behaviors through policy alone. Alcohol prohibition failed spectacularly. Smoking bans took decades and still haven't eliminated the habit. Meat consumption is tied to biology, tradition, and pleasure across virtually every culture on Earth. You'd need a global totalitarian state to enforce this, not just 50 years of moral posturing. What's your actual mechanism? How do you force billions of people to abandon protein sources they've eaten for millennia?
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