• killingspark
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    26 days ago

    Yeah that “will single out meat prices” got my eyes rolling so hard I might have a knot in my nerves now.

    Meat production is one of the main contributors to the climate crisis. We need to produce less of it. I get that campaigning with that message would probably not be popular, but just focussing on groceries would have been enough right?

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      26 days ago

      It’s also just one of those things where people will never be happy. Unless you can get a prime cut porterhouse for a nickel, you’re going to have the ahem meat heads screaming that you’ve failed them. Would love to buy a head of lettuce for under $3, though. Or a bag of onions. We used to practically give away corn and now it’s two ears for $1.

      So much basic foodstuff has skyrocketed in price, well before you get to the pork chops and chilean seabass.