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.
quoting the dictionary at me (lmao) does not change at all what a boycott actually is for, that is, to alter the way a business operates based off of their percieved loss of revenue, which they can regain by modulating behavior in accordance with a set of demands.
veganism is not a boycott, because it doesnt seek for the meat industry to take any action which would result in vegans resuming the purchase of meat.
im done responding to this.
Ok, well as I have said it does disincentivize them by reducing the size of their market, which does reduces the value of their product based on a reduction in demand, which in turn will reduce investment and less investment means less money to build factory farms and slaughter houses.
So if you want to continue calling the people using the commonly held definition of the word boycott anti materialist for believing that a reduction in demand for a product has an effect on the profit motive, which is about as materialist as you can get, because of a fear that it might create a perception of vegans that is completely contrary to the actual public perception of vegans, then I think you are going to be having a lot more of these discussions in the future.
In the meantime, I'm going to keep "being a radlib" and advocating for veganism.