The idea of eating meat that we hunt and fish sounds nice, but the days when populations were low enough to do that sustainably as a sole source for all of society has passed (barring forcing people into specific diets).
"Cree filmmaker Tasha Hubbard has argued that the destruction of the bison was a form of genocide, since their slaughter was partly designed to render Native Americans and their cultures extinct."<p>It was indeed part of the genocide, because the natives deeply depended on that meat and fat to live. We should learn from that, too. We evolved migrating around with herds of ruminants like bison, because they could digest the grasses that we could not, and we could digest them.<p>We're good at being omnivores, but we're particularly good at metabolizing animal products into healthy bodies. In my own experience, which includes years-long periods of veganism, I don't reach optimal health without animal products. I don't think that's unusual.<p>Maybe we do have to sacrifice some level of personal health to protect the planet, but I'm not convinced of that. With population growth slowing and wealth growing, we can have our cow and eat it too.
> Indigenous ideas like “relationality” and “reciprocity” can help us all challenge our outlook on nonhuman animals.<p>Fake meat seems a plausible solution, but a widespread change in religion just doesn’t.