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I suspect this will be a huge political issue within a few years, and five to ten years from now, after the boycotts and hoopla, we'll all be eating very strange (as we currently perceive it) foods.
Jackson, a very close friend of Herman's, spent much of the 1980s boycotting and threatening boycotts against firms whose minority-hiring practices he deemed inadequate.
As a result, corporations have little to fear from boycotts unless consumers commit themselves to maintaining the boycotts even when they serve no purpose.
It's hard to imagine how such commitments might be maintained, which suggests that fines are more effective than boycotts, especially if they are written into law rather than imposed on an ad hoc basis.
In general, boycotts against works of the imagination as the primary focus of a political organization are suspect, whether it's the Catholic League against Dogma or the Brooklyn Museum, NOW against Bret Easton Ellis' American Psycho , or gay activists against Silence of the Lambs , which is not to say that I don't think these things should be as vigorously debated as anyone cares to debate them, and in some cases more vigorously than that.