Comment on "Being vegan is unnatural"
goedel@discuss.tchncs.de 9 hours agothey only compared retail costs. they didn’t account for people who get food for free or near free through poverty subsistence programs or hunting or fishing or farming their own. it basically didn’t cover poor people at all.
lalo@discuss.tchncs.de 8 hours ago
Retail costs are still costs and plant based diets are globally around 30% cheaper than other diets. Where did I specify consumer (or any other particular) cost in my claim? Do you actually think the government giving free food means the food is cost free as well? Do you think self-sufficient people will affect the measure of the cost of food?
goedel@discuss.tchncs.de 8 hours ago
you didnt specify. you made a very broad claim which is not supported by the narrow study.
lalo@discuss.tchncs.de 7 hours ago
Specification is not needed, even you assumed these were retail costs from the get-go,
on the next sentence you conflated retail costs with consumer cost
which of course they didn’t, retail costs will be the same even if the person getting the items isn’t paying for them.
When someone says “this is 30% cheaper now”, any reasonable person would understand that they’re referring to the retail cost, not the consumer cost unless otherwise specified. Like “this is 30% cheaper on my food stamps”.
goedel@discuss.tchncs.de 5 hours ago
it seems like you understand exactly what i’m saying, but you need to somehow paint yourself as right and me as wrong. fine.
have a nice day.