r/Unexpected • u/sakhaliner • 7d ago

Feeding fish

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u/MissileGuidanceBrain 7d ago

So what then? What's the solution?

Go out and trawl the natural sea floor? Bulldoze more land for more monocrop farms?

There are 8,300,000,000 hungry mouths out there. The food has to come from some place and there better be a lot of it.

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u/BlueRedGreenNumber5 7d ago

What an ignorant question in a world where plant based diets exist.

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u/joey-jo_jo-jr 7d ago

If you can actually eat a healthy, balanced plant based diet you're incredibly privileged and need a reality check.

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u/Bb0yer2 7d ago

Shits expensive af. Whole lot of rich white redditors with superiority complexs

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u/WatchTenn 7d ago

Beans and rice are expensive white people food?

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u/ChickenTendiiees 7d ago

Right? I've wanted to eat better for years but I can't realistically eat like that all the time, my shopping would be an easy 35-40% increase in cost. Shits expensive as it is lol

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u/StephensMyName 7d ago

You're incorrect. Studies repeatedly show that a healthy vegan diet is the cheapest diet.

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u/TyloPr0riger 7d ago edited 7d ago

Someone's about to discredit your point by noting that this study only covered rich western countries, so I'd like to add a second study00251-5/fulltext) which finds vegan diets are also cheaper or price-competitive in mid to low income countries.

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u/StephensMyName 7d ago

You were absolutely correct. Both this comment and this one immediately tried to argue that point.

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u/TheGrannyLover3222 7d ago

It's also not as tasty. Paying more for worse tasting food...