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Originally Posted by Charlatan
The real issue lies in the policy that was designed to create cheap food. We have cheap (very cheap) food and it's killing us and the environment (especially when you factor in all of the negative externalities of the oil industry).
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Someone above mentioned that the millions in Indonesia are the problem... hardly. The average footprint of each of those Indonesians (who eat a lot less meat and way more veg and grains) is infinitesimal compared to the average North American. The gluttony that we see in North America is a recent invention. Prior to the 70s food was not as cheap and not as processed.
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The difference is rather astonishing.
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U.S. consumers spend approximately nine percent of their income on food compared with 11 percent in the United Kingdom, 17 percent in Japan, 27 percent in South Africa and 53 percent in India.
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U.S. farmers account for [...] 34.4 percent of the world’s production of corn.
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This is where the term "corn-fed American" comes from.
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