You could use that argument to invalidate voting or any boycott
The difference being that there will never be enough vegans to change large-AG practices until the reasons I’ve stated above. There is a non-zero hit to their bottom line, sure, but Veganism will never be mainstream until healthy and tasty alternatives to meat is viable, tasty, and cheap.
The perpetual shift to healthier lifestyles through lab grown and alternative meats are an inevitability for any prospering/utopian civilization. The technology and culture to get there requires A LOT though.
The world and it’s inhabitants can get fucked because technology will save us? I could think robots are inevitably going to replace slaves but that does not justify me keeping a slave in the present.
The actual difference is: When you vote, your one vote literally does nothing unless your candidate then wins by exactly one vote. The only power your vote has is as part of the collective vote.
But when you go vegan, your own single choice changes a lot, even without taking into account the collective choices of others:
It saves the lives of hundreds or thousands of animals over your lifetime cause they don’t get eaten by you.
The difference being that there will never be enough vegans to change large-AG practices until the reasons I’ve stated above. There is a non-zero hit to their bottom line, sure, but Veganism will never be mainstream until healthy and tasty alternatives to meat is viable, tasty, and cheap.
The perpetual shift to healthier lifestyles through lab grown and alternative meats are an inevitability for any prospering/utopian civilization. The technology and culture to get there requires A LOT though.
The world and it’s inhabitants can get fucked because technology will save us? I could think robots are inevitably going to replace slaves but that does not justify me keeping a slave in the present.
The actual difference is: When you vote, your one vote literally does nothing unless your candidate then wins by exactly one vote. The only power your vote has is as part of the collective vote.
But when you go vegan, your own single choice changes a lot, even without taking into account the collective choices of others:
It saves the lives of hundreds or thousands of animals over your lifetime cause they don’t get eaten by you.