Fascinating statistics. As obesity rates have skyrocketed in the US and UK, sugar consumption has declined rapidly. This is a serious problem for anyone promoting sugar consumption (especially food companies adding sugar) as the cause of the problem. https://twitter.com/ggkuhnle/status/1092143217213140993 …
Sure, but food prices aren't the reason people are struggling to pay. Housing, medical care, transportation and education have all gone up steeply in price over that period, but food hasn't, at least to my understanding.
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Sure, but it's not like we'd be better off if they were higher though, except the extent that poor people had to temporarily starve themselves and their families more often.
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Oh, no, it's not that we should grow less food. It's just that capital has for almost a century been capable of producing an amount of food that is problematic to its own reproduction
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It could be that speculative 'innovations' in food products over the 1980s-00s led to the creation and marketing of food designed in labs to clear shelves at max speed
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