You canāt Abstain your way to a Better World.
The Burger still gets made, even if you go Vegan. If you donāt buy it, it just winds up in the trash. If you want to do something meaningful about waste, you need legislation: It must become a crime to waste food in those ways.
If you care about Animal Cruelty in Factory Farms, you need to get legislation passed. It must become a crime to mistreat animals in those ways, and when malfeasances occurs, the onus of responsibility for those crimes must fall upon wealthy shoulders. That, also, requires legislation. It requires regulations, and regulators.
The largest source of Microplastics is wear and tear on automobile tires. It doesnāt matter what brand of shampoo you buy. It doesnāt matter which company you support with your dollar. The issue of Public Transit is too large-scale to be handled at anything less than the municipal level.
Itās not enough to just not participate in society
If you want the world to Change, you must leverage the mechanisms of political power.
You need Government.
STOP PROPOSING INDIVIDUAL SOLUTIONS TO COLLECTIVE PROBLEMS
Hi I have worked in the actual Food Pipeline for over a decade and you know what really grinds my fucking gears? When people tell me that Economics is Simple and quote āSupply vs Demandā to me. There are physical realities such as variable weather affecting the raw Supply. There is Legislation that affects Demand. There are shelf-life considerations and transportability logistics. There are fad diets and influencers. Corporate managers spend billions on studies and research to leverage marketing, merchandising, and presentation in order to steer consumers towards choices that are more convenient for the supply pipeline, or more in line with the philosophy of the C-suite. There is an absolutely staggering amount of social engineering that goes into modern economics. āSupply vs Demandā is Economics fucking 101, freshman year, first semester. It is a kindergarten level understanding of a terrible and powerful machine with 700000 moving parts. Do you think those del monte plantations got slashed and burned because thereās no demand for peaches or because of a complex interwoven network of liability, ownership, and market manipulation. āSupply vs Demandā pick up a fucking textbook and get past chapter 2.
