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EunieIsTheBus@feddit.de ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• Donkter@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I think it’s less about ruthless efficiency and more about which system will enable even the poorest in society to have nutritious food.

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  • Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    as if this system has done so…

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    • nxdefiant@startrek.website ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      250 years ago people would rent pineapples for parties as status symbols because they cost $8000.

      Nowadays the most expensive pineapple you can get is barely $400.

      That’s progress

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      • stiephel@feddit.de ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        If it helps, I could sell you a pineapple for more than that.

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      • Shardikprime@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Is that Canadian toonies?

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    • Donkter@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Not saying anything about the system, just about which farming method has the most potential to equitably distribute resources.

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      • MonkeMischief@lemmy.today ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I get what you mean. Our system produces a ridiculous amount of quantity, which should be great! But in the context of where it’s firmly placed within existing socioeconomics, stupid things happen like “destroying all the product to keep the value from crashing” and the “distribution problem” that feeding the poor isn’t profitable.

        Maybe industrial agriculture wouldn’t be so terrible if food production for the human race didn’t operate on the same metrics as handbags or funkopops. =\

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    • Welt@lazysoci.al ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Borlaug’s green revolution of the mid-20th century did lead to a rapid reduction in famines across Asia and Africa…

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    • starman2112@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I mean. It has? Even the poorest of the poor eat better than they did a hundred years ago

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• enbyecho@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  if they measure everything as a minimization problem with respect to cost efficience and yield.

  Well to be fair, that 3rd home in the Hamptons and a bigger yacht are not going to pay for themselves.

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