Comment on Honey
Rekorse@sh.itjust.works 1 day agoIt’s a graph. It doesnt interpret itself. It doesnt really do anything on its own.
Comment on Honey
Rekorse@sh.itjust.works 1 day agoIt’s a graph. It doesnt interpret itself. It doesnt really do anything on its own.
commie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
it can only support your position if you could prove your counterfactual, which you cannot.
Rekorse@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Well, if you look at the graphs last 3 points, it goes up from the first to the second much higher than it does from the second to the third.
Should I just assume there was a production problem that caused the reduction?
What’s caused that very minor decrease in the rate?
commie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
i am not an expert on global agricultural markets, but my suspicion is drought, followed by a global (human) pandemic, but i don’t know if those actually caused it even if you could prove they (both) happened. you can also see a significant drop in the 90s correlating with mad cow disease. there it’s easy to say “we destroyed a bunch of cattle instead of slaughtering them” but that’s not exactly reducing suffering. i seem to recall similar stories during the pandemic.
i highly doubt we could draw a causal link between buying beans and either of those dips, though.
Rekorse@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
They were after the pandemic, theres a big dropoff during covid but I didnt want to use it because obviously the causes weren’t regulation or vegans.
I was mainly pointing out that its possible for the rate of increase to decrease, although I understand I can’t prove its from a change in demand.
If there isnt proof for any of the solutions we’ve talked about why shouldn’t I just do all of them?