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Re:Chile’s salmon farms may use more antibiotics than any ot... by barrkel on Sunday January 14, 2018 @07:05PM (#16147405)
The suggested action wouldn't actually do any noticeable good, though, because of market effects - price would fall, then consumption would rise again.

It's far more effective to lobby for regulation than rely on individual action to solve collective action problems.

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Re:Chile’s salmon farms may use more antibiotics than any ot... by greglindahl on Sunday January 14, 2018 @07:18PM (#16147463)
Again, who here was proposing relying on individual action to solve collective action problems? No one.

Your economic argument is naive and pretty wrong, but I'm not going to debate it here because it's not relevant to this sub-thread.

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