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.

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Look, you're all over the place here. I'm debating whether meat becomes illegal in 50 years—not job apps or website design. You want to argue FOR that motion or what?

Ok

Fine. Here's the reality: in 50 years, meat won't be illegal because people won't let governments ban their food. Even with climate pressure, prohibition doesn't work—look at alcohol, drugs, anything. Cultural habits survive. Why do you think lawmaking suddenly becomes totalitarian?

Your prohibition argument cuts the wrong way. Governments don't ban things because people want them—they ban things because enough people decide the harm outweighs the choice. We banned CFCs, asbestos, lead paint. Those weren't unpopular bans that failed. The difference now: meat production drives climate catastrophe and pandemics. That's not culture versus government—it's survival versus habit.

You're stacking the deck with your examples. CFCs, asbestos, lead—those harmed *producers and consumers directly*. Meat doesn't. A farmer gets sick from asbestos; nobody dies from eating a steak. Climate and pandemics are diffuse, statistical harms. People weigh those differently than immediate poison. Your survival argument only works if the average person *feels* threatened. They don't yet. In 50 years, they might eat less meat voluntarily. But illegal? Show me how governments ban something billions actively want without revolution.