Global meat production is going in the wrong direction

I have been contemplating the link between food and health and how tragic it is on so many levels that so few people are willing to try to make a serious change in their diets. However, maybe our idea of ‘mostly vegan’ will appeal to more people than a doctrinaire ban on all flesh products, though it does still require self-control, which in this libertarian age of consumption is a hard sell (metaphor deliberately ironic). Reducing animal consumption is, like so many other things, a systemic issue, and if it is to change significantly it will take decades, especially as clearly global meat production is going totally in the wrong direction:

https://ourworldindata.org/meat-production

Most glaringly, China has seen an astronomical increase in meat production – 41x since 1961 (now producing nearly double what the US does), and India a more than 6x increase since 1961. Globally, in 60 years, we’ve gone from 30 to 352 mt/y (>10x increase). And most of those animals are kept in horrifying conditions to boot, but that is a sad subject for another day.