I am sorry but this is a bizarre defense. Where did progressiveness come in all of this.You make meat consumers sound as if they are cruel people who can't feel sympathy. What advanced society? We have too many important issues already to deal with here than beef. Poverty, unemployment etc.
Well the farmer's family is growing and self sustainable quantity never works. How will he make money. Send his kids for education.
Corporate greed is a different topic altogether. Beef sector in India is mostly an unorganised sector.So many species have gone extinct due to poaching, leather etc, again how is this relevant here.
Lol, so you are comparing cutting trees to beef. The last line makes no sense whatsoever.
The progressive part was in response to mohit9206 where he mentioned how progressive nation should be. Do read my reply fully before commenting.
Now, comming on to your more practical aspect. Yes, farmers have to send there children to the most reputed school and also need to have cars and a good big house. Agreed!
But, doesn't everybody want all of that? There are limited resources with multiple uses, and in the not so prefect world everybody doesn't get everything. We have to accept that as human needs have no bound.
My point is that. A farmer or any other person who don't have much money to spare should send his children to public school or colleges. Or private schools or colleges according to his paying capacity. Similarly he can own a maruti instead of a mercedes or a small house instead of a bungalow.
Everbody can not have the same thing. And there are similar things available at various price points. So, saying that sustainability cannot be afforded is not true.
We need to understand our responsibility to our future generations. And just because we are greedy doesn't mean that we use all the resources available at our disposal at once. That's not the way our future generations could survive. Dont have such a skewed/narrow view.
Well beef as with all other kind of meat including fish, also need to be used in a certain limit. A lot of fish species have too gone extinct because of there meat. At that time too people used to think they are unlimited just like the trees. And now some that are left is because the government have banned there catching. Some more examples of human greed are tigers, lions, dolphins etc-2 list is endless.
Just like cutting trees people have killed them in such huge numbers that there whole habitat was destroyed forever. And banning is one way to stop that.
Its not only about the beef. You must make sure that you should never waste meat or anything of any animal who was killed because of your needs. And please atleast leave sufficient resources for the future generations. You are just a tenant on earth and not its owner. Like a guard its everbody responsibility to save much for our future generations. And if you or the government or lawmakers dont have time to think about the future then we already are a doomed species.