Monetary cost is the wrong y-axis here, as it optimizes only for mega-scale farming without taking its real costs in consideration. It should be ‘true cost’, which also accounts for environmental-, animal- and climate mitigation cost.
I think this is what it’s meant to be about. “How do I afford a good amount of protein with not much money?”, is the question it’s answering.
It reminds me of a Reddit post I read several years ago where someone shared their advice on how they managed to live under extreme poverty. They spent a good amount of time talking about what foods are the most cost effective to buy and this chart lines up with what they have been saying pretty well.
Monetary cost is the wrong y-axis here, as it optimizes only for mega-scale farming without taking its real costs in consideration. It should be ‘true cost’, which also accounts for environmental-, animal- and climate mitigation cost.
I think this is what it’s meant to be about. “How do I afford a good amount of protein with not much money?”, is the question it’s answering.
It reminds me of a Reddit post I read several years ago where someone shared their advice on how they managed to live under extreme poverty. They spent a good amount of time talking about what foods are the most cost effective to buy and this chart lines up with what they have been saying pretty well.
Yeah I don’t think this covers externalized costs
And subsidies
Indeed. I pay taxes that will become subsidies for a lot of those things in the charts, especially those I don’t even consume.
That goes from a nice little graphic to a socioeconomic PhD.
Selfish people don’t care about those factors. The existing graph has a better chance of swaying them.
That’s nice for scientists and policy makers. Not so useful for people buying things at the store.