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Generally, this really sucks for the restaurant and the town but, "the price of food, particularly meat, has risen more than the over-all consumer-price index"
by pj_mukh 4y ago
Generally, this really sucks for the restaurant and the town but,
"the price of food, particularly meat, has risen more than the over-all consumer-price index"
Unpopular opinion: But maybe this is fine? In fact after inflation is under control, maybe real meat needs a heavy carbon tax to keep the prices high. We can rebuild the supply chain around fake meats as we slowly switch away. I know this all seems implausible, because the cow/meat lobby will have a field day with any congressman suggesting this, but one can dream.
- kart23 4y agofake meats are overly processed, and probably more expensive too. real chicken has far more protein and is better digested than fake meat. from a nutrition standpoint, the real thing is much better.
- toomuchtodo 4y agoTrue, but so is less of it. “Western Diet” is a real malady at scale. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_pattern_diet https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_pattern_diet
- ch4s3 4y agoRed meat consumption has been declining in the US since the early 2000s and more people than ever are vegetarians. I think it's time to update the trope about the "Western" diet.
- rafaelero 4y agoVegetable consumption is still very low. https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/vegetable-consumption-per-capita?tab=chart&country=~USA https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/vegetable-consumption-per...
- amanaplanacanal 4y agoCan’t replace meat consumption with vegetable consumption. Not enough calories. If you are giving up meat, you are replacing it with grains and legumes.
- sofixa 4y agoI skimmed the Wiki article but it seems incredibly US, maybe North America focused. Examples and data were American, and none of it is applicable to Western European countries I'm familiar with. Not that nobody drinks sugary drinks or nobody eats red meat or hamburgers, but they're much less of staples and processed foods are much rarer. So what's with so many people abusing "Western" to mean American and maybe Canadian?
- pj_mukh 4y ago"from a nutrition standpoint, the real thing is much better."* * for now.
- ZoomerCretin 4y agoYou know that there are more non-meat foods than just meat-substitutes, right?
- bee_rider 4y agoWe could also add a healthcare system damage surcharge for red meat. But not for cheese... for... reasons...
- JackFr 4y agoI know it’s nice to pin it on the cow/meat lobby, but apart from the people who want to sell meat, there are an awful lot of people who want to buy it. (Off-topic: There is a similar “problem” with guns. It’s nice to claim the NRA as the evil bugbear, but the real issue is the tens of millions of people who want to buy guns.)
- quickthrower2 4y agoOne day the economic reaper will come for the software developers: will be kinda fun even though I am one because the the roll out of bed and get $200k/y lifestyle and the entitlement to that will vapourize.
- pj_mukh 4y agoThe climate reaper is already here and it’s the Texans featured in this article that will feel the heat first. The 200k/yr developer will comfortably whisk themselves off up the hill. Maybe this is more complicate than you think it is?
- quickthrower2 4y agoMaybe more complicated than you think it is. High paid ICs in a corporate lead world are the exception not the rule. The rule is low level workers get enough to survive.