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Odd that what you call a "luxury industry" is essentially something that poor people have been doing for over a century. I generally agree that trying to eat le
by noirbot 4y ago
Odd that what you call a "luxury industry" is essentially something that poor people have been doing for over a century. I generally agree that trying to eat less meat, especially beef, is a fine idea, but farming, ranching, and BBQ are all industries that are about as far from luxury as you can get. A lot of these foods are based around cooking the cheapest and least edible meats that poor communities could afford to buy.
- rafaelero 4y agoWhat is odd is how meat became such a cheap product. The ratio between calories of grains (to feed the cow) to calories of meat is what, 10:1? It is a luxury item. Humans started consuming it in large amounts only in the last 50-100 years.
- noirbot 4y agoIsn't that because calories aren't really directly relevant to how people shop for food or consume it? I can't just replace a hamburger with 10x that amount of grain, or even 1/10th of that amount of grains and get the same nutritional values. For the most part, feed grain for cattle isn't even grains that most humans would eat without plenty of calories of processing by other humans put into it. In general, I feel like you're conflating "modern" with "luxury" in a way that doesn't feel reasonable. Just because we haven't being doing something for long, or that it requires effort/inefficiencies doesn't mean it's innately "luxurious". Certainly not everything modern is good, but almost everything about food even in non-western countries is calorie inefficient and relatively modern as we invented new ways to cook and farm, and spices and cooking methods became more diverse.