The material incentive to raise meat for slaughter is that people buy it. You remove that incentive by not buying it, fewer people will raise meat for slaughter.
Joseph Stalin himself described boycotts as a viable means of political activism.
The material incentive to raise meat for slaughter is that people buy it. You remove that incentive by not buying it, fewer people will raise meat for slaughter.
Joseph Stalin himself described boycotts as a viable means of political activism.
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For reference, you are arguing from the materialist perspective that supply and demand doesn't exist. That's a pretty lofty claim. The market for a commodity has no relavence to the value of that commodity or investment in it's production or ultimately the amount of that commodity that is produced.
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Like I said, this isn't a temporary reduction, it's a sustained reduction for decades so that example is not applicable at all.
If a company that makes meat products invests in making meat alternatives, that means they are aren't investing in meat products.
There hasn't been a drop in animals in captivity because of globalization, but there would be even more animals in captivity if it were for the millions of vegetarians all over the world.
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Of course they can. I don't know what that proves. Money that is invested in meat alternatives is literally, that exact dollar, is not invested in meat. The fact that it is companies that have traditionally made meat products doing this only further illustrates the point. A bunch of ghouls sat down in a board room and said ok, if we invest in veggie burgers there is a better return. Seeing that better return they did not invest that in new factory farm.
Like how does meat companies inveating I meat alternatives not prove my point?
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I get your point generally, but any example is necessarily going to be a simplification.
I can't really post a 200 page dissertation on the effects vegetarianism has on the meat industry though.