• @lightnegative
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    136 months ago

    Consumers: only buy the cheapest regardless of how it’s produced, ensuring a race to the bottom

    Producers: lower standards to increase production so they can sell meat for the lowest cost

    Consumers when they find out what that entails: shocked pikachu face

    • @[email protected]
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      606 months ago

      I highly doubt that chain of causation to be true. Had people paid more, the producers would still lower their cost base as much as possible, in order to maximize profits.

      • @pivot_root
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        76 months ago

        Something something late-stage capitalism.

      • @bigFab
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        06 months ago

        Yup. The meat industry, like all food gets completely away from climate pollution tax. The government’s climate solution is forcing you to sell your gas car and buy a freakin’ Tesla.

        • @pivot_root
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          26 months ago

          Encouraging people to die by the hand of “full self driving” does–in a way–reduce CO2 emissions.

          • @bigFab
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            16 months ago

            Fortunately soon we’ll have an ‘automated bird flu mcchicken’ service.

    • @[email protected]
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      56 months ago

      Corporations: Under pay employees for decades

      Consumers: only buy the cheapest regardless of how it’s produced, ensuring a race to the bottom

      Producers: lower standards to increase production so they can sell meat for the lowest cost

      Consumers when they find out what that entails: shocked pikachu face

      FTFY