Completely agree that the decline in food quality and the economic structures is tied to a decline in food culture. Seems the rest of the comments do not get the point that if people who can demanded quality food, the race to the bottom could be avoided.
For example, I see how dairy went from the milkman delivering high quality milk to the mass produced stuff that barely resembles the original item. The interesting part is that now the high quality milk can only be had at ever increasing prices as the demand for it has decreased. If people who can afford it don't buy it, less people will afford it in the future furthering the decline in food quality.
Truth is the poor don't even come into the picture. The decline in food culture is driven by the upper class and the pretense that things are the same. "It is still milk!" No it is not the same item. See also, impossible meat, etc...
Catering to the lowest common denominator is only enabled by betters not knowing and choosing better. The health consequences are already apparent and the difference between people's diet and outcomes will only grow starker
I mean the methodology is sketch and even the assumptions seem quite not right. Correct me but might as well read: "Fructose increases metabolism and degradation of poison (LPS)"
Sure in the context of the particularly bad diets 98% of Americans eat (odds are you're not in this 2% hon), excess fructose might be bad. But look at the research in primates, other countries, fructose in a nutrient rich diet is plain fuel for metabolism and repair. Hell, even fertility is improved.
Your first statement is flat out wrong. Illegality is actually a driver of prices in all sorts of activity. See drug prices now, alcohol during the Prohibition. (Also, and this is more of a style and culture matter, learn about run-on sentences. They're one of those things that got cut in us-landia colleges.)
Obviously, it is "not like a bank transfer". Then again, that you personally have never seen anything like it, makes no difference in its actual legitimacy or usefulness as a medium of transaction.
Lack of oversight is the main feature, it only scares old women (not even all of them, who would have guessed but my grandma asked about btc in a call a year ago.) and why is deflation bad?
Yeah, those footers are just for the "more equal" crowd. Anyone I know who actually wants to discriminate, still gets away with it. Those who don't don't. But at least now the average diversity idealist is appeased.
For example, I see how dairy went from the milkman delivering high quality milk to the mass produced stuff that barely resembles the original item. The interesting part is that now the high quality milk can only be had at ever increasing prices as the demand for it has decreased. If people who can afford it don't buy it, less people will afford it in the future furthering the decline in food quality.
Truth is the poor don't even come into the picture. The decline in food culture is driven by the upper class and the pretense that things are the same. "It is still milk!" No it is not the same item. See also, impossible meat, etc...
Catering to the lowest common denominator is only enabled by betters not knowing and choosing better. The health consequences are already apparent and the difference between people's diet and outcomes will only grow starker