Meat-loving Australia has no appetite for vegetarian diet to help planet, study finds

www.abc.net.au Meat-loving Australia has no appetite for vegetarian diet to help planet, study finds

La Trobe University research shows Australians would prefer to embrace many other green options to help the environment before giving up meat and becoming vegetarians.

A study shows Australians would rather take other actions to help the environment than give up meat.
Participants cite a lack of vegetarian options when dining out, despite Australia having more than ever, as a barrier to the diet.
Researchers hope the study will highlight reasons behind people's reluctance to reduce meat consumption.

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so you're against capitalism
- Regulated capitalism is still capitalism
- It must be nice and simple to see the whole world in black and white terms. You should definitely try getting to grips with nuance though. It makes things annoyingly complicated and messy, but is ultimately rewarding.
  
  Publicly owned monopolies are antithetical to capitalism by definition but go off
  
  So you are looking at a largely capitalist economy, but with a few natural monopolies - water supply, being one example - being in public ownership.
  As an example, the UK is generally considered a capitalist economy, notwithstanding the fact that its largest employer- the NHS - is publicly owned and operated.
  
  NHS isn’t a monopoly
  
  That was intended an illustration of how the existence of one or more large state-run organisations does not mean it isn’t a capitalist system. If you prefer something else - the UK has effectively renationalised parts of the rail system

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