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I'll dig up the source later, but some studies show that each hamburger has an $8 subsidy behind it. I don't think the parent comment is way over stating the ef
by ixwt 6y ago
I'll dig up the source later, but some studies show that each hamburger has an $8 subsidy behind it. I don't think the parent comment is way over stating the effects of subsidies.
- buryat 6y agocome back with sources, right now it's just a claim
- spiderfarmer 6y agoThe only sources I can find are NGO's with an obvious agenda. Just like the sources that say how much water is used for one pound of beef.
- calcifer 6y ago> The only sources I can find are NGO's with an obvious agenda. How is that a bad thing? Is the CDC untrustable because they have an obvious anti-disease agenda?
- read_if_gay_ 6y agoIf they bend the truth to fit their agenda, then yes.
- calcifer 6y agoWhat evidence is there that anyone is doing that?
- read_if_gay_ 6y agoYes! When has anyone ever lied, told only half the truth, misrepresented issues, or omitted important facts to push their agenda? You really think someone would do that, just go on the internet and tell lies?
- calcifer 6y agoYeah, it doesn't work like that. If you claim someone is lying the onus is on you to prove it, we don't ask people to prove a negative.
- spiderfarmer 6y agoYeah, I'm not sure it should work like that anymore. Trump lied in almost every publicly uttered sentence. Why is the onus still on the media to disprove him? At some point you should not automatically trust an institution like the presidency anymore. Back to the original question. NGO's repeatedly say a single kg of meat costs 50.000 liters of water. That number in itself is not undisputed. If they don't specify which meat and which country they're referring to, they're lying. Or misrepresenting facts at the least. If they use this argument in a region that has no shortage water, they're abusing this fact to support a narrative. Etcetera.
- read_if_gay_ 6y agoI'm not claiming anyone's lying. Just that they probably are. If I showed you a study on the supposedly benign health effects of tobacco, except that study was funded by Philip Morris, would you trust it until proven wrong? Would you argue "how is their obvious agenda a bad thing?"
- JamesBarney 6y agoThe pricing of a big Mac in different countries is too consistent for the u.s. to be subsidizing the burger to the toon of a 25x price difference relative to a soybean burger.