[Xodarap]

> I'm just pointing out something fairly obivous - that not participating in a market is not a very effective way of changing how that market produces things.

Everyone participates in the market for buying food. There's probably someone out there who has the very narrow goal of changing how meat (and only meat) is produced, but for everyone else this is a strawman argument.

We want to change food production, and overpaying for similar products is obviously going to be less of a signal than larger dietary changes.

[ska]

This thread is dead now, but a quick response - it's not (just) less of a signal, it is a very different signal, which is important.

I wasn't addressing at all the issue of whether some group of people want to get rid of a product entirely which I had hoped was clear.

"The market for food" is a very broad category and contains many markets.