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Blaming a lack of food quality on capitalism is pretty rich. For a point of comparison, consider that even in socialist countries that didn't have famines, the
by thworp 3y ago
Blaming a lack of food quality on capitalism is pretty rich. For a point of comparison, consider that even in socialist countries that didn't have famines, the availability and quality of food was orders of magnitude worse. The entire eastern block had basically no restrictions on pesticides, food poisoning was a regular occurence (due to broken refrigeration, lack of labs to test meat samples, fertilizing directly with fresh human and animal feces). That was if you were lucky enough to even get some of the items.
Hell, in the GDR there were persistent rumors that they kept using byproducts from coal refining to make margarine (a practice started by the Nazis) and I know for a fact that they used animal bile to replace hops in beer.
We don't even have to talk about pre-modern times where almost everyone had a diet severely lacking in variety and nutrients.