Asking the gov to proactively shrink or limit animal products is a non-starter because there are just too many (voting) consumers who would be outraged. It would be political suicide. Same for cars. Forcing car owners out of cars would be political suicide as well.
But what I find baffling is there seems to be no chatter about the fact that the US gov gives (millions?) in subsidies to livestock farmers. And Europe gives tax breaks for “commercial” cars (mischaracterized personal cars). If the gov were to end the subsidies, there could be no reasonable complaint that the gov is interfering. Because in fact the gov would be ending their intervention.
Yeah, it’s ironic for sure that the anti-spending party takes the extreme opposite stance on farming subsidies, which is why farmers vote republican. But since farmers are die-hard right-wing voters, whenever the dems get power they would seem to have no reason to try to win over farmers (dems are never going to get farmer’s votes), so they might as well end the livestock subsidies.