The prices of things are relative in different markets based on whatever exchange value the capitalist can extract. If anything, this food budget is unrealistically low, just like everything else in this budget.
Anyways, thanks for helping the reactionaries make their argument. For years they’ve been telling millennials that their problem is they eat too much avocado toast. If only they would live off beans and rice, that rent at 50% if their income wouldn’t sting so much.
You completely missed what CNN was trying to do when you got focused on the smallest piece of that budget.
It’s also much more efficient. People will think meat is calorie dense and efficient in those terms, but every 1 calorie of beef you eat costs 6 calories in crops fed to the cow. I believe chicken and most others are 4 or 5 calories of crops per calorie of meat. 50% of the continental US is currently used to raise livestock and the food to feed them, funnily enough reducing meat consumption would also greatly reduce the amount of crops we consume as a society overall further reducing water and many other types of waste.
The prices of things are relative in different markets based on whatever exchange value the capitalist can extract. If anything, this food budget is unrealistically low, just like everything else in this budget.
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Anyways, thanks for helping the reactionaries make their argument. For years they’ve been telling millennials that their problem is they eat too much avocado toast. If only they would live off beans and rice, that rent at 50% if their income wouldn’t sting so much.
You completely missed what CNN was trying to do when you got focused on the smallest piece of that budget.
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It’s also much more efficient. People will think meat is calorie dense and efficient in those terms, but every 1 calorie of beef you eat costs 6 calories in crops fed to the cow. I believe chicken and most others are 4 or 5 calories of crops per calorie of meat. 50% of the continental US is currently used to raise livestock and the food to feed them, funnily enough reducing meat consumption would also greatly reduce the amount of crops we consume as a society overall further reducing water and many other types of waste.
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Rice+beans+veggies+chicken/fish+spices. great