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Have you tried to compare a mostly rice diet to something that has quite significant variety in it (especially if you need the volume of food that a plant-based
by krageon 5y ago
Have you tried to compare a mostly rice diet to something that has quite significant variety in it (especially if you need the volume of food that a plant-based diet requires)? It's very expensive.
- nix23 5y agoJust because everyone thinks rice/corn/potato is the problem-solver...hint it's not.
- krageon 5y agoThe claim was that healthy diets are not expensive, when in reality they are. The fact that unhealthy diets are unhealthy is not in dispute.
- nix23 5y ago>>On average, the healthier diet costs 69% more, but this estimate is greatly affected by food choices. For a family whose household income is exceeded by one-third of the population, this increased expenditure represents about 30% of total household income. This could be decreased to about 10% to 15% if a healthy diet is carefully designed. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/47790404_The_cost_of_a_healthy_diet_A_South_African_perspective https://www.researchgate.net/publication/47790404_The_cost_o...
- krageon 5y ago"For a family whose household income is exceeded by one-third of the population", in other words "rich". Yes, it's only 30% household income in extra spending! And perhaps with a lot of effort it can be lowered to 10-15% extra spending. This is a lot, especially when you don't have such an enormous amount of leeway in money that you can just move somewhere else.