Arguably, some degree of food supply uncertainty is most natural, and what our metabolism developed to accommodate. Security is great, morally, but I don't think our caveman metabolism is adjusting that quickly. I don't think that should curtail the efforts we make to secure food for all, but it's worth consideration.
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ivanafterall@lemmy.world · 60 pts · 1y
I'm not starving, I'm in ketosis. My being unable to afford food is unrelated.
agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works · 15 pts · 1y
Arguably, some degree of food supply uncertainty is most natural, and what our metabolism developed to accommodate. Security is great, morally, but I don't think our caveman metabolism is adjusting that quickly. I don't think that should curtail the efforts we make to secure food for all, but it's worth consideration.
earphone843@sh.itjust.works · 9 pts · 1y
We just need to end sugar and corn syrup subsidies.
agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 1y
"just" is a bit reductive, but yeah that wouldn't hurt
popekingjoe@lemmy.world · 25 pts · 1y
Nah we turned "not being able to afford breakfast" into intermittent fasting.
FenrirIII@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y
But what about all that avocado toast I am told is the cause of poorness?
ArcaneGadget@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 1y
save_the_humans@leminal.space · 4 pts · 1y
Now if only I could afford the van, I too could be homeless. Just like I've always wanted.
Stamets@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 1y
RedditWanderer@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 1y
George Carlin, euphemisms
SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 7 pts · 1y
The Dethklok Diet.
rimmedalpha@lemmynsfw.com · 3 pts · 1y
I'd rather chop off my ding dong than admit that!
ReplicantBatty@lemmy.one · 3 pts · 1y
I believes this ams called a "foods libraries"
not_IO@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 4 pts · 1y
I'm not poor I'm minimalist
oldbaldgrumpy@lemmy.world · -13 pts · 1y
Wait, millennials did something?
poo@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 1y
Holyginz@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y
Because they are ignorant and/or a troll