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Decent article but misses a bunch. Those cheap staple crops are only cheap because they are massively subsidized, and also grown as huge, environmentally damagi
by shmageggy 6y ago
Decent article but misses a bunch. Those cheap staple crops are only cheap because they are massively subsidized, and also grown as huge, environmentally damaging monocrops. So while yes, it may be cheaper to use corn, it’s only really solving the ethical problems of meat by hedging on the environmental axis.
In general, it seems there needs to be something deeper done. Something is deeply wrong when cutting out the inefficient middle-man (the animal that converts plants to meat) somehow ends up with a product that’s MORE expensive.
- jcampbell1 6y ago> only cheap because This is often repeated nonsense. The reason corn is a popular crop is because it yields the most calories per acre of any crop. Places without crop subsidies grow lots of corn. See Argentina, Brazil, Africa, etc.