So militant!!
No, I'm not a fregan, but I completely respect the whys of what they do. I think if you become vegetarian, vegan or whatever for environmental, political, or social reasons, then you're really not doing it right unless you go fregan. You're still supporting corrupt systems built on next-to-free labor and greed, even just by eating a tomato!
I respect the logic of it as well, but I also see how impractical it would be on a large (worldwide) scale. All those corrupt systems are still supporting the people that work there. Take away the systems (or the reason for them to exist) and now you have rampant...what? Freedom? Unemployment? Wild bands of serfs roaming the countryside? Who knows?
It's like the whole Backpage and Craigslist situation with adult services being made 'unavailable' through these sites. Everyone feels great for having taken something like that offline...but all the stuff is still going to happen anyway, just more underground.
I feel if everyone was fregan, the negative impact would be worse from that than the negative impacts of the system right now.
Who knows, though. I can't pretend to be an expert in economics.
I believe in anarchy though. Ya know, Chaos is the only truth.
My thought has always been that if enough people commit to a blatant boycott of a system (like freganism is) then maybe people will learn and the system will correct itself/compromise. Like, recently, I blasted my local Dairy Queen about their blizzards because they're always soupy. My parents got really upset because we live next door to the manager of Dairy Queen and my mom said it would hurt their business. Well, yeah, but maybe then they'd learn to actually make decent blizzards. Or, if they don't learn, we just got rid of a sick system. Maybe someone with better experience or who actually gives two hecks will take over and make decent blizzards. Ones worth four-freaking-dollars, anyways.
That, or maybe the system will have to come down and folks can put their hands to the soil again and farm that way, v.s. factory-grown animals and importing from fifteen other countries.
So militant!!
No, I'm not a fregan, but I completely respect the whys of what they do. I think if you become vegetarian, vegan or whatever for environmental, political, or social reasons, then you're really not doing it right unless you go fregan. You're still supporting corrupt systems built on next-to-free labor and greed, even just by eating a tomato!
I respect the logic of it as well, but I also see how impractical it would be on a large (worldwide) scale. All those corrupt systems are still supporting the people that work there. Take away the systems (or the reason for them to exist) and now you have rampant...what? Freedom? Unemployment? Wild bands of serfs roaming the countryside? Who knows?
It's like the whole Backpage and Craigslist situation with adult services being made 'unavailable' through these sites. Everyone feels great for having taken something like that offline...but all the stuff is still going to happen anyway, just more underground.
I feel if everyone was fregan, the negative impact would be worse from that than the negative impacts of the system right now.
Who knows, though. I can't pretend to be an expert in economics.
I believe in anarchy though. Ya know, Chaos is the only truth.
My thought has always been that if enough people commit to a blatant boycott of a system (like freganism is) then maybe people will learn and the system will correct itself/compromise. Like, recently, I blasted my local Dairy Queen about their blizzards because they're always soupy. My parents got really upset because we live next door to the manager of Dairy Queen and my mom said it would hurt their business. Well, yeah, but maybe then they'd learn to actually make decent blizzards. Or, if they don't learn, we just got rid of a sick system. Maybe someone with better experience or who actually gives two hecks will take over and make decent blizzards. Ones worth four-freaking-dollars, anyways.
That, or maybe the system will have to come down and folks can put their hands to the soil again and farm that way, v.s. factory-grown animals and importing from fifteen other countries.