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What makes salmon a luxury goods? Its very affordable within the space of non-processed foods and healthy. Heck it compares with processed foods! I went to "w

What makes salmon a luxury goods? Its very affordable within the space of non-processed foods and healthy. Heck it compares with processed foods! I went to "www.webstaurantstore.com" (?) and compared salmon to a cheap mass produced ham (that is both are animal protein). $10/lb for salmon vs $8/lb for the ham. Hardly a huge difference, but one is very processed with lots of salt and nitrates.

missedthecue 3y ago
lb for lb, it would not surprise me to learn that farmed fish has a lower all-in pollution output than pork.
riku_iki 3y ago
> $10/lb for salmon vs $8/lb for the ham you can find $2/lb ham, but you can't find salmon for that price. lb/$10 will be transformed into something like 300g after cooking process, and for person with minimum wage, it means he needs to work for 1h after taxes to get 300g of product, this is like pre-industrial level of productivity and income.. And there are people outside US with even lower wages.
- thsksbd 3y ago
  All that means is that US wages are too low. But, be they what they are: - 300 grams is not a bad serving. - for the folks on minimum wage, its only 12% of their income which Im not sure if its a bad ratio historically. - "man does not live on bread alone" ie, you can't eat cheap ham everyday, nor should salmon be a daily staple. But variety of food is a necesity, not a luxury. - ham at $2/lb sounds disgusting and probably causes more health problems (nitrates) than just eliminating animal protein. - My wife used to live on minimum wage with no external help padding her income. She still ate a serving of fresh salmon every week. Im sorry, but if farmed salmon is a luxury, as a society our standards of living have collapsed.
  - riku_iki 3y ago
    > Im sorry, but if farmed salmon is a luxury, as a society our standards of living have collapsed. yes, in the last two decades wealth gap became larger, and poor became poorer.

missedthecue 3y ago

lb for lb, it would not surprise me to learn that farmed fish has a lower all-in pollution output than pork.

riku_iki 3y ago

> $10/lb for salmon vs $8/lb for the ham you can find $2/lb ham, but you can't find salmon for that price. lb/$10 will be transformed into something like 300g after cooking process, and for person with minimum wage, it means he needs to work for 1h after taxes to get 300g of product, this is like pre-industrial level of productivity and income.. And there are people outside US with even lower wages.

thsksbd 3y ago
All that means is that US wages are too low. But, be they what they are: - 300 grams is not a bad serving. - for the folks on minimum wage, its only 12% of their income which Im not sure if its a bad ratio historically. - "man does not live on bread alone" ie, you can't eat cheap ham everyday, nor should salmon be a daily staple. But variety of food is a necesity, not a luxury. - ham at $2/lb sounds disgusting and probably causes more health problems (nitrates) than just eliminating animal protein. - My wife used to live on minimum wage with no external help padding her income. She still ate a serving of fresh salmon every week. Im sorry, but if farmed salmon is a luxury, as a society our standards of living have collapsed.
- riku_iki 3y ago
  > Im sorry, but if farmed salmon is a luxury, as a society our standards of living have collapsed. yes, in the last two decades wealth gap became larger, and poor became poorer.