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.
I actually was a vegetarian until about 5 years ago and I used to have chickens. They are basically pets and they actually didn't need the eggs at all, like they would lay them on my porch and just leave them. We let them set on eggs when they wanted and it all seemed pretty reasonable, but here is the catch, you let them set on eggs as is their nature, fine good, and the the eggs hatch and you get roosters. If you have two or more roosters they will mutliate and kill each other because of the necessarily unnatural conditions they have to live in in a northern climate. So we got to the point where we needed to kill them. This was about 12 years ago and I actually ate meat at the time. I took them out to the field to kill them and it was a gloomy spring morning and as I killed them all I had this crazy spiritual moment where their lives literally flashed before my eyes. I sort of broke down. I ate those chickens, but I neve ate meat again after that. (Ok, full disclosure, I ate pork momos in Nepal that I had order by accident. I felt bad for my white privilege of throwing out food in such a poor country, but I didn't get through them and got sick to my stomach. Suffice to say I was more careful ordering food after that.)