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Comment by metaphorm

> yet food prices don't rise like healthcare prices.

agricultural subsidies and price support (government agrees to purchase unsold surplus of many crops) are a huge contributor here.

also consider the externalities. the price of cheap beef is that 60 years from now a global climate crisis will cost the entire world thousands of trillions of dollars, and probably lots of lost lives as well.

parent metaphorm 9 years ago

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