supply and demand isn't a magic phrase that makes your theory true. there is no reason to believe animal husbandry will ever stop before people are extinct.
Each person's purchases directly lead to consequences. Paying for animal products kills over 200 animals a year per person who does it reguarly. Even if animal abuse will never end it doesn't mean we should empower or continue supporting it. Especially 3 times a day.
supermarkets often buy from suppliers who themselves are just middlemen. but regardless, all of those people are agents with free will, so no one else can be said to be resposible for their actions except the person who is doing teh action.
You're just grasping at straws. Capitalism obviously sucks at self-regualtion and voting with your dollar to the fullest extent you can is important. Paying for a distrubution that pays for a hitman / breeder is no different than paying for a hitman / breeder. Buying meat isn't necesary, you can buy non-animal based products and the supplier wont pay for more animals to be bred and killed. Even if you don't push the supplier over the threshold of a purchase, its gambling eachtime till you shoot the bullet.
You can have culturally appropriate foods without killing. Vegans exist everywhere in the world. Culture doesn't make things that are wrong, right. Genital mutilation and misogyny are wrong, even if they're apart of someones culture.
You pretending that your lifetime commitment of supporting an animal abuse industry doesn't lead to blood shed is patronozing lol. You can make your own hoops and pretend they don't lead to suffering but they do. You are responsible for their deaths if you pay for them. Stop making excuses to hurt more animals
I do when it's violating another being's atonomy who can suffer lol. You're the aggressor in the scenario. I am doing the baseline, you're voting for death
So hilarious to hear this from a fellow commie lmao. You think the same with Nestlé selling water? If no one supported Nestlé they'd continue to bottle up local water supplies and heavily upping the prices? They'd continue to use effectively slave labor for cocoa?
you're supposing a causal relationship where non exists. people choose their own actions, so their actions can only be said to be caused by their free will.