Industrial meat production and ocean degradation: Coopetitive paradigms towards economic structural solutions and healthy diet changes

In our paper, we construct a two player coopetitive game of Global Economy showing quantitative political strategies which can impact ocean preservation and global environmental sustainability. Our model focuses on reformulating food products in line with guidelines for healthy, sustainable diets, while reducing their environmental footprint. In addition, a food production that reduces its environmental footprint allows the maintenance of natural capital, that is the world's stocks of natural assets which include soil, air, water, oceans, and all living things. We assume that two country clusters, possibly of different technological level (or development stage) engage a coopetitive interplay aiming at the improvement (in the direction of an healthy vegetable diet) of their food production. The two decision makers, adopting a mixed economic system, contribute together to the improvement of the respective food quality, while competing 'a la Bertrand' in selling their food products in a free international (global) market. Our model addresses the huge problem of meat industry as a principal cause of the degradation of the oceans and a greatly dangerous threat to the life itself in the oceans.