Or simply “the government has no right to tell people what food they are allowed to buy on the free market”. They don’t need a reason, that’s the whole point of freedom.
I agree this would be appealing to intellectually consistent conservatives, but this seems like a bad meme to be spreading/strengthening for animal welfare. Maybe local activists should feel free to deploy it if they think they can flip some conservative’s position, but they will be setting themselves up for charges of hypocrisy if they later want to e.g. ban eggs from caged chickens.
Or simply “the government has no right to tell people what food they are allowed to buy on the free market”. They don’t need a reason, that’s the whole point of freedom.
I agree this would be appealing to intellectually consistent conservatives, but this seems like a bad meme to be spreading/strengthening for animal welfare. Maybe local activists should feel free to deploy it if they think they can flip some conservative’s position, but they will be setting themselves up for charges of hypocrisy if they later want to e.g. ban eggs from caged chickens.
I feel this might be stronger than the climate change argument, when (like Ben said) so many republicans don’t take climate change seriously