I fucking love it when every article I ever read that says stuff like this comes from sites like:

http://www.cowspiracy.com/take-action/

Meat goes down when wealth goes down. Meat use goes up when wealth goes up. Worldwide, meat consumption is raising drastically. Organic alternatives honestly aren't going to be convincing anyone anytime soon, as most of them honestly do not taste like meat unless the meat was there for texture only in the first place.

Meat consumption may go down due to health reasons, as the US does really need to cut back before we are eating healthy amounts again, but it will not go away. People honestly don't care about the impact meat has on the environment when things like powering our homes take up just as much, if not more power. Sustainability will come through the abandonment of fossil fuels, not through the end of meat eating.

Look at how much water these cows are... Oh, hold on a minuite.

Cows use less than 1%. All agriculture combined (admittedly a lot of this goes to livestock), uses up 37 percent. In the US, agriculture combined leads to about 15-20 percent of our emissions.

Global greenhouse gas sources: From: http://www.epa.gov/climatechange/ghgemissions/global.html

For the US only, the country I live in:

Drought by global warming will cause the cows to move to areas that are getting more rain, or it will lead to better irrigation techniques, or the rise of the price of meat causing it to be used less.

Meat isn't a dying industry, until it gets undercut by something much newer, more efficient, and better, that provides the same total value. Not absolute value, in that the goal of meat is to feed people, but total value, in that it satisfies the people who want to be eating meat in the first place.

I am not, and likely will never be, convinced by the environmental or economic issues of eating meat. Just as I am not convinced by the moral arguments against it.