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  • coeliacmccarthy [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.net
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    7 months ago

    eggs were literally the cheap protein

    they used to tell you to buy canned tuna and eat that all the time if you were poor, but then we ate all the tuna in the deep blue sea so eggs became the food they told poor people to buy so that we can get the macronutrients we require to not die

    now they just laugh

    • quarrk [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      7 months ago

      Cheap is a measure of labor cost. Externalities like climate destruction and disease outbreak only matter to the extent that they increase the labor required to produce eggs.

      In a sane system of production, a cheap (ie plentiful) protein would be produced after evaluating climate, health, moral, and other considerations besides labor