[lbo-talk] chipotle restaurants and immigrant workers-achipotle fan speaks up

[Carrol Cox]

Doug's response is pretty comprehensive. I would only add that while 
opposition to cruelty to animals is valid, even important for a numer of 
reasons, the phrase "animal rights" sets my teeth on edge and I stop 
reading when that phrase appears.

Carrol

On 5/9/2011 10:27 AM, Doug Henwood wrote:
> On May 9, 2011, at 12:17 AM, // ravi wrote:
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>> A boycott is a collection of individual  choices of one product (where indispensable) over another...
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> It's also a response to a call by workers or other exploited humans. It's not merely "a collection of individual choices." You sound like those bourgeois theorists who define a corporation as a "nexus of contracts" and not an institution larger than any set of individuals.
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> Over the last few years, I've pretty much converted to buying only "humane" meats, and not the crap in the supermarket. But I wish there were half the lobby for exploited farm workers that there is for animals.
>
> Doug
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