Regarding the recent South Park episode, I appreciate, aside from the meat eaters exploding, the subtle economics lesson of what happens when the luxury/bourgeois product called "beef" is scarce.
As the main characters yearn for school lunches with local cow flesh, they have to realize that the 'free market' has delivered that luxury product to much richer consumers far away. That's highlighted by the rancher who's showing off his new wealth with jewelry. So much for "locavore."
The episode doesn't get into CAFOs, but it does show the ideal case of welfarism and the delusional idea that the most resource intensive version of cow exploitation -- "grass fed" with extra welfare -- would be economically sustainable for the masses.
The best and fairest solution is to abolish the animal exploitation industry.
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