• thefluffiest@feddit.nl
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    5 months ago

    Monetary cost is the wrong y-axis here, as it optimizes only for mega-scale farming without taking its real costs in consideration. It should be ‘true cost’, which also accounts for environmental-, animal- and climate mitigation cost.

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      5 months ago

      I think this is what it’s meant to be about. “How do I afford a good amount of protein with not much money?”, is the question it’s answering.

      It reminds me of a Reddit post I read several years ago where someone shared their advice on how they managed to live under extreme poverty. They spent a good amount of time talking about what foods are the most cost effective to buy and this chart lines up with what they have been saying pretty well.

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        5 months ago

        Indeed. I pay taxes that will become subsidies for a lot of those things in the charts, especially those I don’t even consume.

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      5 months ago

      Selfish people don’t care about those factors. The existing graph has a better chance of swaying them.

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      5 months ago

      That’s nice for scientists and policy makers. Not so useful for people buying things at the store.