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Healthy food is cheaper. If you accept that raw/unprocessed food is healthier than processed, and that vegetables are healthier than meat, then this must be tr
by adwhit 11y ago
Healthy food is cheaper.
If you accept that raw/unprocessed food is healthier than processed, and that vegetables are healthier than meat, then this must be true, because processing food requires
energy and raising livestock requires feeding the livestock.
If this is not true in practice, it will be due to perverse taxes and subsidies.
- astrange 11y ago> Raw/unprocessed food is healthier than processed > Vegetables are healthier than meat But neither of those claims are true. Raw meat isn't healthier than cooked meat because you'll poison yourself, and if you go and try to live on a vegetarian diet without careful attention to modern scientific knowledge about nutrition, you'll end up with all kinds of things like vitamin B-12 deficiency. You need a mix of raw and cooked foods because some nutrients are not bioavailable with or without it, but not because raw foods are more "natural".
- jmulho 11y ago> "if you go and try to live on a vegetarian diet without careful attention to modern scientific knowledge about nutrition, you'll end up with all kinds of things like vitamin B-12 deficiency." That is true. However, if you go and try to live on a meat-eating diet without careful attention to modern scientific knowledge about nutrition, you'll end up with all kinds of things like obesity, heart disease, cancer, diabetes, and stroke.
- cheepin 11y agoHere's an interesting case study (tl;dr It's more complicated than that): http://inhumanexperiment.blogspot.com/2009/09/two-brave-men-who-ate-nothing-but-meat.html http://inhumanexperiment.blogspot.com/2009/09/two-brave-men-...