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.
Who is saying that a percentage of people not eating meat is going to stop the profit motive in its tracks? I have literally never heard one person argue that in my entire life. You are tilting at windmills.
The point is it is a reduction in suffering and it doesn't cost us anything. If you get to reduce suffering by any amount for free that's a win.