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Sep 17 2020 11:45am
Quote (inkanddagger @ Sep 17 2020 11:22am)
That pop is made from massively subsidized corn. The milk is made from massively subsidized grain and livestock production.


Jesus, I must have been typing my last post with my noose.

I'm sure they are. There's a typical argument that has validity to it and that is "Cheap unhealthy foods have replaced healthy foods in a persons diet because of the cost". Yes, I agree that is the case in many places. I have now lived in a different place where healthy food is actually significant cheaper than unhealthy food, same trend, people buy the unhealthy food.

You have two significant challenges now when it comes to food. Even if you can healthier alternatives on par or cheaper than unhealthy ones, people are addicted. Kids replicate their parents, the addictive cycle continues.

With unhealthy food, typically we see more package waste, if you can move from unhealthy to healthy you also start to take a chunk out of package waste. How you achieve this now is too much for my small brain.

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Sep 17 2020 11:55am
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Jesus, I must have been typing my last post with my noose.

I'm sure they are. There's a typical argument that has validity to it and that is "Cheap unhealthy foods have replaced healthy foods in a persons diet because of the cost". Yes, I agree that is the case in many places. I have now lived in a different place where healthy food is actually significant cheaper than unhealthy food, same trend, people buy the unhealthy food.

You have two significant challenges now when it comes to food. Even if you can healthier alternatives on par or cheaper than unhealthy ones, people are addicted. Kids replicate their parents, the addictive cycle continues.

With unhealthy food, typically we see more package waste, if you can move from unhealthy to healthy you also start to take a chunk out of package waste. How you achieve this now is too much for my small brain.



People buy convenient packaged foods because they don’t want to spend the time preparing healthier, minimally processed, unpacked foods. Time is value, and value is God in our world.
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Sep 17 2020 12:00pm
Quote (inkanddagger @ Sep 17 2020 11:55am)
People buy convenient packaged foods because they don’t want to spend the time preparing healthier, minimally processed, unpacked foods. Time is value, and value is God in our world.


That is certainly another additional issue to pile one.

Somehow you now need to make healthy alternatives cheaper, combat addiction and change a countries value system.

Guess the masses are fucked.

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Sep 17 2020 03:47pm
Quote (Santara @ 17 Sep 2020 18:37)
Why do you even waste your time addressing me? It's not like I'm even going to put in an effort at giving you honest discourse when you can't be bothered yourself. Oh, that's right. You're self-important Eurotrash. Must bother you tremendously to know I'm your better in every way.


ahaha, that reminds me of camboy's "i'm so intelligent" claims. i'll let you in on a secret: truly intelligent people don't do that - and people who are actually "better in every way" (what a weird statement. how old are you, thirteen?) than someone else don't post that on d2jsp.

but hey, i guess that's one way of dodging my question about the drawbacks of unfettered capitalism. guess even such a simple point, that you don't have to subscribe to any extreme, that it's possible to have the advantages of capitalism while also avoiding some of its downsides, is too nuanced for someone like you.
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Sep 17 2020 04:31pm
Quote (fender @ Sep 17 2020 04:47pm)
ahaha, that reminds me of camboy's "i'm so intelligent" claims. i'll let you in on a secret: truly intelligent people don't do that - and people who are actually "better in every way" (what a weird statement. how old are you, thirteen?) than someone else don't post that on d2jsp.

but hey, i guess that's one way of dodging my question about the drawbacks of unfettered capitalism. guess even such a simple point, that you don't have to subscribe to any extreme, that it's possible to have the advantages of capitalism while also avoiding some of its downsides, is too nuanced for someone like you.


You wouldn't know.
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Sep 17 2020 04:41pm
proof that capitalism is fucking up our food industry.
Most countries don't allow for certain GMO's and or Pesticides etc to be fed to their public.
BUT NOT IN FUCKING MERICA! Fuck ya whatever combination you need to make a buck.. DO IT
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Sep 17 2020 04:49pm
Funny thread.
Too much packaging and too much food. 1st world problems. 'capitalism bad' :lol:

Quote (theCrossbones @ Sep 17 2020 06:41pm)
proof that capitalism is fucking up our food industry.
Most countries don't allow for certain GMO's and or Pesticides etc to be fed to their public.
BUT NOT IN FUCKING MERICA! Fuck ya whatever combination you need to make a buck.. DO IT


Ah a sub80 GMO truther that also thinks America and capitalism are the same thing.

This post was edited by cambovenzi on Sep 17 2020 04:50pm
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Ah a sub80 GMO truther that also thinks America and capitalism are the same thing.


Our country subsidizes soy. Soy isn't even biologically digestible by humans

'Murica logic
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Sep 17 2020 08:16pm
Quote (EndlessSky @ Sep 17 2020 05:51pm)
Our country subsidizes soy. Soy isn't even biologically digestible by humans

'Murica logic


Do you ever get tired of saying shit that can be disproven in 2 seconds on google?
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