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Originally Posted by dlish
On the other hand, i do recall a few years ago now when petrol prices shot through the roof, some groups tried to influence the buying habits of motorists and the selling prices of the service stations by not buying petrol on a certain day .
What motorists did instead was buy the same amount of petrol the day before or the day later. It made no difference in the consumption of petrol because people did what they usually do and service themselves with whatever resources they need to get by everyday.
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But, you see, this is not the same thing. It would be like the motorists buying ethanol or some other alternative fuel instead of regular gasoline for their day's usage. Meatless Mondays is about replacing your Monday's meat with plant-based food, not deferring your Monday's meat intake to another day, whether the preceding day or the following day or whenever.
It's not like most people are going to do Monday by avoiding their usual 1 lb. of meat only to eat 2 lbs. the next day, or in advance eat 2 lbs. on Sunday...or even split it up and eat 1.5 lbs. on Sunday and 1.5 lbs. on Tuesday. They're "skipping" meat that day and replacing the calories with plant-based food. It's not like motorists stockpiling gasoline that they will burn anyway; it's replacing one energy source with another.
And about the laws of the market: no one knows these more than lobby groups and governments. They seem to know how to keep the price of animal products artificially low for consumers via subsidies....at least in North America. This is what I discussed in post #54 above. Tax payers are essentially paying to have the price tags on meat show up lower than it really should be. Even vegans pay for that wonderful service.