Not sure how this is news? This is how markets work…
This is how austerity on behalf of the Epstein Class works.
Care to explain how, exactly?
Epstein. Epschtein!!!
“Let them eat re-constituted soy!” (I’ve heard that before, but in a different language).
“It’s PEOPLE!”
Lets eat the rich, then.
let them eat cake
I thought it was poor quality Argentinian beef?
I forgot this ref, it’s a ref, right?
It’s something that Marie Antoinette was accused of saying when French peasants were starving just before the French Revolution. Consensus is that she never actually did but it’s a good little anecdote for rich people being blissfully unaware of real life.
So maybe Trump is actually caring about climate change.
Not only has he lowered the CO2 emissions, through the closure of the straight of Hormuz. Gives electric cars a big boost and now he turns people away from meat to a plant based diet.
Wonder what is next on his agenda to save the planet. Keep on going.
If only he didn’t slaughter renewables and nuke international trade, some might consider this a step in the right direction
Close enough… get the guillotines.
Yeah, but there’s a whole 100 year old system of feeding the US beef. Sure, we can change things. The system however, has been fabricated to produce beef. Its a very very large system that isn’t easily just changed. Can it be changed? Sure. Can that change happen easily and without economic pain? No. Its like oil. Sure, alternatives for gas and fertilizer exist, but its a hugely painful process to change when there has been such a reliance on a very ingrained system.
“Cost of living too high? KILL YOURSELVES, STREET URCHINS!”
- the wealthy
Got that Marie Antoinette energy.
Have y’all seen the price of cake?
I went to the grocery store tonight, a single prefabricated slice of cheesecake was $9. That should be the price at a nice restaurant.
Let Them Eat Slop!
I was gonna say sarcastically: “this will go down with the maga base”. But most of them will never hear it. And most of those who do will just scream “FAKE NEWS! LIBERAL HOAX!” And the few who don’t do that will tie themselves in mental gymnastics knots.
You forgot blaming Biden/Obama/Clinton for high prices they find in the store.
These are the same dumbfucks that believe it when donnie or one of his stable of liars claim he inherited “the worst inflation in history”, FFS. When it was actually ~2.9% when tiny-d donnie took office again.
I saw a video the other day where the woman was fully blaming Walmart. Not prices everywhere, not the economy, just Walmart. Not that Walmart is innocent, but Jesus…
Well, there’s some people who only shop there, so she might have no frame of reference to use, if she was able.
Oil and beef are expensive. 😞
Oil and beef are expensive. 😀
It is kinda nice that Impossible Steak Bites now costs less per unit of mass than beef does. Going vegetarian starting to make more sense every day…
Do it. Not just because of cost, but because it’s the right thing to do.
The upside too all of this shit? It’s making people take a hard look at how their lust for first-world consumption, immediate gratification and convenience is the very source of the problem we’re facing now.
Making the right choice economical is just the icing on the cake!
That’s good to hear. Given all the inputs into things like beef, plant-based should almost always be cheaper. I’m still irritated when something vegetarian/vegan on the menu is as expensive or even more expensive than the omnivore edition.
Few things highlight the deep distortions that actual social engineering does to the marketplace as much as that.
Of course, buying certain ingredients and making plant-based yourself can often be far cheaper than eating out.
Sometimes the cost of processing itself is non-trivial.
Fermented sauces, for example, tend to be much more expensive than just the raw ingredients, because the process itself is complex (and requires significant labor and/or equipment to keep safe for human consumption).
In order to make some of these plant based meat substitutes, the complex processes need to basically move enough volume to be able to take advantage of economies of scale. So we’ll probably get there eventually, at least once these plant protein products become mainstream enough.
i am not against changing our diet per say. i can envision a future where we eat more bugs/algae proxies. when playing cyber punk i saw an ad for pizza with “REAL peperoni crickets” or something, and wile i know it’s out there to shock the player, the more i think about it the more i embrace it.
in this case i declare broken clock protocols, and know that this is a symptom to larger rot in society, but our current way of life was never sustainable, nor particularly healthy.
Meanwhile legumes: am I a joke to you?
Miraculous nitrogen fixing nutritional powerhouses with more culinary flexibility than virtually everything else out there, and y’all are so averse to putting some plants in your mouth that you’d start talking about resorting to eating bugs.
To be fair I do regularly take algae oil supplements I guess. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
jesus tap dancing christ.
the speed at which a vegan IMMEDIATELY shot me down as not good enough has to have been precognition.
but sure, yea, whatever, beans and other plants we are already eating should probably be involved and be more prominent in our diets.
damn!
You got served, suckah!!!
While technically correct, this is such a supremely tone deaf statement that I have to wonder if they’re just going full mask off.
This is the same bitch that suggested people take up being a chicken farmer to get eggs. Oh, and also this:
Being tone deaf and/or gaslighting seems to be something she excels at.
My apartment manager doesn’t like the dozen chickens running around, but I told them the Trump administration told me to do it, and what can they say to that? I tell the neighbors the same thing when they complain about the noise and chicken shit everywhere.
What’s even more stupid is that she propagates the protein myths AND points them at sources that are not really all that cheap.
If she wanted to help people that are worried about “getting their protein” (oh FFS, and JFC. 🙄 ) she could point them at rice and beans for a much more budget-friendly option with a much longer shelf life.
