Eating capitalism: How our food got hijacked by profits • Hacker News Board

Re: Eating capitalism: How our food got hijacked by profits

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Post by LargoLasskhyfv » Wed, Oct 08, 2025, 4:13 AM UTC

Findeton wrote: post #15

buggeryorkshire wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> If you go to Italy there are no mc donald's Eh? https://www.mcdonalds.it/

Sorry, the example is bad, there's no Domino's in Italy.

But there was. Just didn't get enough customers. So they bailed out :-)

That aside, in the context of healthyness, one has to wonder if Pizza as such is good for you, no matter how and with which ingredients it is prepared, if eaten too often?

Re: Eating capitalism: How our food got hijacked by profits

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Post by heyimada » Wed, Oct 08, 2025, 11:02 AM UTC

fasteddie31003 wrote: post #9

As 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"

I grew up in a post-communist country, freshly out of the waiting lines for oranges. It's not about that. We can take the beneficial from capitalism and use it to run the food systems too. And we are. But I think it's just good to be aware of what you put in your body, as the supermarkets or food producers don't really incentivize that.

Re: Eating capitalism: How our food got hijacked by profits

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Post by branon » Wed, Oct 08, 2025, 4:40 PM UTC

Thanks for this. My wife is a clinical dietician and we try very hard to extend her knowledge (dieting for sick people) into our home so we can eat foods that will keep us healthy. Always very nice to see other people doing/writing similar things. Big fans of Salt Sugar Fat/Michael Pollan as well!