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Vegetables are prohibitively expensive for many people. Most people can't just afford the latest veggie dish from The Cosmopolitan that would cost EUR 20,- per
by klalxc 2y ago
Vegetables are prohibitively expensive for many people. Most people can't just afford the latest veggie dish from The Cosmopolitan that would cost EUR 20,- per person. Even potatoes are super expensive.
Unless you mean turnip style hunger winters, as occurred during WW1 and WW2.
- david-gpu 2y agoLegumes are inexpensive, healthy, filling and have a low CO2 footprint. "Beef or crickets" is a false dichotomy.
- cute_boi 2y agoMeat should always be more expensive than vegetables due to inefficiencies. But due to subsidies it isn't.
- em500 2y agoThat sounds a bit implausible if you're in the EU. Here in the Netherlands the large supermarkets sell potatoes, carrots and onions for around €2/kg, while chicken is usually around €10 to €15/kg and beef more like €15 to €40/kg depending on the cut.
- ranguna 2y agoYou can't really make a direct comparison of a kg of meat vs a kg of legumes. Maybe you just need 100g of meat to get what you'd get with 1kg of legumes. At least that's what people usually say, but if they do the maths, it's still generally cheaper to have a plant-full diet than a meat centred one (kg vs kg aside).