• OutOfMemory@sh.itjust.works
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    11 months ago

    That’s just the point though. Food is only made profitable by pricing it high enough that half the world can’t afford it (by which I mean the global south)

    • Not_Alec_Baldwin@lemmy.world
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      11 months ago

      Don’t forget farm subsidies, illegal labor in awful conditions, terrible animal treatment, externalizing climate damage from carbon burned during processing and transport, health damage from added sugars and hyper processed nut and seed oils, and I’m sure many other things I’m forgetting.

    • mojofrododojo@lemmy.world
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      11 months ago

      @sigfried complained it’s not profitable. that’s a lie.

      your secondary concerns aren’t addressed by my response because it wasn’t the premise I was disagreeing with, it’s the lie that food production isn’t profitable. it is.

      IT SHOULDN’T NEED TO BE.

      These are separate arguments.