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Re:Chile’s salmon farms may use more antibiotics than any ot... by fpoling on Monday January 15, 2018 @03:21AM (#16149278)
Boycotting works through the stubborn minority rule [1]. Sometimes even less than 1% of the total population can enforce their rule for the whole country. This works as long as the rest of population finds the rule does not bother them match.

[1] http://fooledbyrandomness.com/minority.pdf

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Re:Chile’s salmon farms may use more antibiotics than any ot... by TeMPOraL on Monday January 15, 2018 @05:14AM (#16149660)
Wait, wait, wait.

I thought it was universally acknowledged that boycotts, generally, don't work, because you can almost never find and coordinate enough people that care.

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Re:Chile’s salmon farms may use more antibiotics than any ot... by fpoling on Monday January 15, 2018 @07:43AM (#16150131)
The case of Kosher wine from the link shows how about 0.3% of population forced almost all wines in US to be Kosher by boycotting non-kosher wines. The important thing is that the minority should be distributed across the whole population uniformly.
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