How much will change, if we boycott buying meat?!
How much will change, if we boycott buying meat?
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2 months ago
I was reading an answer on one of the posts where many veggies and vegans would not buy meat for their families, and they feel like they are fueling the meat industry. If we don't buy those meat products, what kind of impact will that have?
2 months ago
I was reading an answer on one of the posts where many veggies and vegans would not buy meat for their families, and they feel like they are fueling the meat industry. If we don't buy those meat products, what kind of impact will that have?
2 months ago
oops, didn't mean to send that one twice!
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2 months ago
I was reading an answer on one of the posts where many veggies and vegans would not buy meat for their families, and they feel like they are fueling the meat industry. If we don't buy those meat products, what kind of impact will that have?
2 months ago
I was reading an answer on one of the posts where many veggies and vegans would not buy meat for their families, and they feel like they are fueling the meat industry. If we don't buy those meat products, what kind of impact will that have?
2 months ago
oops, didn't mean to send that one twice!
It is hard to be inspired to not eat meat when people tell you it will never change a thing. You should go to PETA's website and they have an article (i forget what its called) that tells you how much impact 1 vegetarian has. It is incredible! Personally I notice my impact directly because at my house my family buys meat from a neighbouring farm and there are 5 people in my family and when 2 of us stopped eating meat, the amount of cow and pig my parents bought from this farmer dropped enormously. Instead of buying half a pig of meat my family bought only half that. Now a pig that would have fed 2 families will feed 4 just because my sister and I stopped eating meat. When we stopped eating meat my family slowed down on eating meat too just because we started to replace some meals with vegetarian meals that everyone in the family enjoyed. There is so much one person can do it is incredible. If everyone had the attitude that one person will never change the world than this world would be a horrible place. You have to believe in yourself and your abilities and fight for what you think is right or nothing will ever change. Look at how many vegetarians there are and how many of us are fighting to make a difference. If we all had a negative attitude in life a lot more animals would suffer. I will try to find that article on PETA for you. Also, just because we live in a soceity where certain things are common practice does not mean though certain things are right (slavery,racism, cruelty to animals)
Add: I found a website you should read it
http://www.goveg.com/environment.asp...
http://www.goveg.com/factoryfarming.asp...
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it says that 1 vegetarian can save the lives of more than 100 animals each year. I would say that is a pretty good deal. no meat for me means that 100 animals will be spared.
Not much, because most people won't.
Nothing, you wont get enough people and if you did and the price went down everybody else would buy more cuz of the price drop.
nothing, if you eat less meat I will eat more.
you are just 1 consumer. Nothing will change if it is just you.
And I'm not giving up my steak, porkchops, bacon, etc...
It won't change a thing. Those that want to eat meat will. Would it change you if meat eaters boycotted veg's and tofu?
It is not practically possible mam
Even if some people do that
the prices would go down eventually attracting other consumers
hippies will start chaining themselves to tomato plants and what not
apsolutely nothing! i LOVE meat! and im sure others do too! and nothing can stop us from eating what we like!
I eat meat with every meal. There is NOTHING better than a good barbecue! I wish they would get those Japanese cows over here that have twice the fat of our cattle. Man, would that meat be goooood!
u can't caze not all freaks r vegiterians
if all or many people would participate,..there would surely be a lot of changes..many meat companies would die...and most of the participants in the boycott would lose much weight...
The boycott would only affect the PETA retards. In that respect, they would have enough reason to start another naked protest and we would probably get to see a news clip of some blurred out hippies in their birthday suits in front of the deli isle.
Meat is sold because it is profitable and consumers dont know (or care) where it really comes from. As a consumer you have the power to affect the market by boycotting certain products, emailing companies, and spreading the word to your friends and others.
Companies maybe dont care about animals, but they do care about their income source, and they do listen to consumers when pushed.
If everyone was a vegan there would be no need for factory farming. If at least some of us are vegans, less animals end up on the plate, and more people start questioning their eating habits. This is a slow process but change is happening. When I remember 10 years ago, there was almost no vegan food (Like soy products) available, and today there are many alternatives. Not so long ago, not many people knew why organic food is better, and now there are green stickers on all organic products. So yes, something is definitely happening thanks to caring consumers.
I realise that I probably wont see any huge changes in my lifetime, but because of the choices I make today, next generations will have more alternatives and it will be easier for them to be vegans. Someone has to start *somewhere*. So why not me, now?
The initial impact will probably be a recession. The meat industry is probably on par with the pharmaceutical industry as far as the economony is concerned. It sits just behind construction. The energy cartel is probably at the top of the pecking order.
As everyone learns to eat soybeans instead of chickens, the meat industry is going to lobby the government heavily and end up highly subsidized. Nobody will buy steak anymore, but our tax dollars will still keep the industry alive. The population of slaughter animals will decrease to the point where only the breeders remain. Industrial farms will become zoological parks.
Expect the meat industry to launch a massive advertising campaign, probably very much the way the tobacco industry did as their sales began to fall due to heavy regulation. Expect "low meat" meat offered, just as the cigarette industry began a series of "low tar" products. As the scenario continues to unfold, expect a lot of research conducted on the psycological impact of living as a vegetarian. Expect the results to unaminously agree that "a healthy body does not lead to a healthy mind". Of course, this "research" will be funded entirely by the meat industry itself. It's an old capitalist conflict_of_interests trick which has been around for decades.
America is such a rich and powerful nation because we grow so much non-meat food. We have enough corn for ourselves, our pigs and the rest of the world as well. If pigs, chickens and cows were no longer eating all the corn and soybeans, we might use this excess material for better things, like biofuels. Expect the energy cartel to behave like angry mobsters at this point, but organized criminals don't start revolutions. If anything, they work very hard to prevent them. It's ordinary citizens who start revolutions and these happen when people are able to make informed choices. Then it's only a matter of time when all the phony research and government subsudies jus't don't work anymore and industry comes to the grim conclusion it is time to change their business practices.
Sorry but this question is ridiculous. First off, if you are a veggie than you already boycott. Unless for some odd reason you are still buying it, whatever.
And if your little fantasy works why don't you think of all the people that would be out of work? Seriously you're talking everyone from the farmers, to the meat packer to the people working at fast food restaurants just trying to make a living earning minimum wage. How selfish are you? What a small box you live in.
Why can't you eat the way you want and STOP PREACHING. What is it to you how and what anyone else eats. We don't get on our soapboxes and preach that our ways are better than yours and quite frankly it is the height of disrespect for you to do it to anyone else.
i like to think more than 120 animals will be spared if i don't eat meat for a year
so if i can convert just 1 person, then i can save 120 times the amount of years that person dont' eat meat
so stop eating meat, they're animals