I understand the hopeless feeling of &quot;what can one person do.&quot; But the individual actions of individuals do add up.<p>We are seeing right now a trend towards better farming practices, with large chains like Chipotle going antibiotic-free. They are doing that, in part, because enough individuals made the choice to look for antibiotic-free food. In other words, individuals drove corporations to act.<p>Individual actions also add up directly, even without influencing corporations. If you eat even a little less of a harm-causing food, that&#x27;s an actual impact on the market. Less of the product is being bought, and less will (eventually) be produced. It&#x27;s a small effect, hard to see, but it is definitely there - it has to be.<p>And even if you think &quot;oh, it rounds off&quot;, then yes, maybe they can produce 1,000 or 2,000 but not 1,001, so most likely reducing 1 won&#x27;t affect production. But that just means that a single individual going from 1,001 to 1,000 will reduce 1,000, and that averages out - the probabilistic effect of an individual remains the same, and again, it has to be, assuming reasonable rational production.<p>Finally, there are indirect effects: If you eat less of a harmful product, your coworkers, friends, and family might notice. It might lead them to make a similar positive change. Hard to measure, but we do know this is an important factor.<p>I do agree we shouldn&#x27;t &quot;blame the general public&quot; in the sense of blame&#x2F;shame&#x2F;etc. But at the same time, we can&#x27;t give up and say we can&#x27;t do anything, because our individual actions definitely do have an effect. To some extent, we can make things better.