• Hegar
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    1111 day ago

    Innovation under capitalism definitely looks like determining what forms of animal cruelty will allow meat to cook twice as fast.

    • @[email protected]
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      28 hours ago

      It’s more to do with fork tender. It cooks the same time, just one is much tougher due to well worked muscles.

      • @[email protected]
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        21 hour ago

        Case in point two meats that are uncommon in North America. Mutton and mature chicken.

        Both benefit from much longer cooking times and are extremely tasty.

    • Match!!
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      1131 day ago

      Completely by accident. If squeezing a little more profit had lead to meat taking ten times longer to cook, they would’ve done that

      • @[email protected]
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        301 day ago

        Indeed, profit is the only motive and everything else is an accident. People attribute positive effects to capitalism in the same way horoscopes work.

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          Sure capitalism might breed efficiency and innovation, well except for when it breeds monopolies, and price fixing rackets, and wage theft, and outsourcing, and enshittification, and horrible pollution, and anti unionization propaganda, and… Wait I forget what point I was going to make.

      • Mossy Feathers (They/Them)
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        Counterpoint, while cook time might not make a direct profit like fatter faster-growing chickens do, it would probably still make the chicken more desirable due to the decreased cook time; especially if you could advertise it as a feature.

        "Life’s fast, so why isn’t cooking faster? Are you tired of your chicken taking hours to cook? Buy Bryson’s Chicken Breasts!

        "Bigger!

        "Fatter!

        "Healthier!

        "and faster!

        “Our chicken breasts are designed, formulated and engineered to be as big, nutritious and delicious as possible; while also being faster and easier to cook than other brands. So why spend hours cooking normal chicken breasts, when you could cook Bryson’s Chicken Breasts in a fraction of the time? Buy Bryson’s; you won’t regret it.”

        Edit: misread “faster” as “fatter” lmao. Point still stands though.