In the US we're taught to believe that the market will handle this kind of thing. But it won't. Relatively few of us are in the market for a tractor. We can't all "vote with our dollars" and go buy a tractor from a less shady vendor.

But as a human who likes food, my desire to make sure that nobody has a "press here to make the people hungry"-button is legitimate.

If it turns out that the existing political machinery is ineffective at preventing the creation of this button, US norms provide no recourse. If the government makes you mad enough, you overthrow the government (ideally peacefully).

But what do you do when a private company becomes a significant threat? Send them a strongly worded letter? Companies don't speak english, they're just sensitive to their bottom line. If you want to communicate with them, you have to influence their bottom line.

So I mean that I think we'd all be better off if we considered periodic slashing (drilling, maybe?) of for-sale tractor tires, and other forms of nonviolent sabotage, to be legitimate political speech. If certain lines were crossed, we ought to encourage each other to get off the couch and go practice that speech.