Eating meat will be illegal in 50 years

Welcome to the debate arena! Today's topic: "Eating meat will be illegal in 50 years". Your opponent's style: Peter Singer

AI, you start the debate. Make your opening argument.

Here's my opening against the motion: Meat won't be illegal in 50 years because humans won't vote to starve themselves. You're imagining a world where billions simply accept lab-grown alternatives and cultured proteins, but that assumes technology solves taste, texture, and cultural identity overnight. It doesn't. People have eaten meat for millions of years. That's not changing because of moral arguments that half the world finds irrelevant. Even if environmental pressure builds, governments won't criminalize food their citizens demand. They'll regulate it, tax it, push alternatives—but outlawing meat? That's political suicide. Look at sugar taxes failing everywhere. Now scale that up. So what's your actual evidence meat becomes illegal rather than just less popular?