Eating capitalism: How our food got hijacked by profits
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Eating capitalism: How our food got hijacked by profits
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#3Most of what you see in the grocery store is bad for you. Just buy plain food items close to the source; fruits, veggies, meat, etc.
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#4Most of what you see in the grocery store is bad for you. Just buy plain food items close to the source; fruits, veggies, meat, etc.
most gorceries are bad for you...? That doesn't sound right?
edit: Right 60% of calories from ultra process foods, yikes.
Re: Eating capitalism: How our food got hijacked by profits
#5Most of what you see in the grocery store is bad for you. Just buy plain food items close to the source; fruits, veggies, meat, etc.
most gorceries are bad for you...? That doesn't sound right? edit: Right 60% of calories from ultra process foods, yikes.
They’re saying the packaged stuff is bad so buy the natural stuff. Buy a vegetable instead of a vegetable snack in a bag that’s only 20% vegetable.
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#6Capitalism will sell you guns and crosses, it depends on what people demand. If you go to Italy there are no mc donald's. It's a cultural issue, not a problem of the the economic system.
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#7Its interesting that just today I randomly watched https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1QvVnjiegE that lists some points an American living in the UK found to compare Europe and the US. And one of those points was about how American food is so much less healthy.
Whilst it was an interesting video and worth watching, it's interesting that this article shows a chart showing that the UK is very close to the the US in calories coming from ultra-processed food (with mainland Europe being much less, with a general south-is-healthier trend).
The video is also related to the point in the article about McDs being about freedom, and how Europeans and American's see things when they look across the pond.
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#8Capitalism will sell you guns and crosses, it depends on what people demand. If you go to Italy there are no mc donald's. It's a cultural issue, not a problem of the the economic system.
Disagree. Why does the US monocrop soy? It’s a higher short term profit for less work. The economics are causing us to destroy our food supply.
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#9As much as bashing capitalism is in vogue. I'd take capitalism running the food system over communism any day. The reverse article could have been written 50 years ago. "Starving communism: How collectivism killed the kitchen"
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#10I have the pleasure of working with some small scale farmers and they are the truth.
We are destroying our soil health for short term profit. We need more regenerative farming but PE doesn’t like the margin on that.
Yvon Chounaird advocates for bringing small scale farming back. It’s good honest work that could help with our unemployment and purpose issues while restoring planetary health.