feotakahari

From a utilitarian standpoint, consumer activism under near-monopoly capitalism is functionally useless. My vegan stepmom shared a post recently that claimed (no citations provided, but it seemed plausible) that farm subsidies were picking up the slack in demand due to decreased consumer consumption of meat and meat by-products. Even absent that, the power of the individual to make meaningful changes in the economy is arbitrarily close to nil, imo.

I think you might be able to make a case for consumer activism from a non-utilitarian standpoint, but I've yet to run across anyone making a serious effort to do so.