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Then I guess I'm guilty sneaking my personal preferences. I wanted to have a conversation about the industrial food supply and failed to ask the right questions

It's OK if there's not a universal definition of every concept. Some things in life are culturally subjective - especially cuisine. However, I think an intelligent person can look at string cheese and say that's fake food.

I've started realizing that there is very little space for nuance and subjectivity in discussing things on HN

Then you just answered your own question if sausage is real food... so why are you asking?

But if you want to talk about curing meats, that's a fun topic. The ones my fam makes are way tastier than Jimmy Dean's

I wish HN had a dial to turn down the pedantry

Are you doing a semantic word-play thing, or are you genuinely curious about the food supply?

Edit: I see that you're a former lawyer. I'm going to assume it's a semantic word-play thing

The agro-industrial complex in general convinced Americans to buy trademark branded products instead of real food

I first thought this was a reference to 'monoculture' in the agriculture sector, and I'm also concerned about it surviving the algorithm.

I wonder how many millions of productivity hours have been lost in the past 3 years as people direct all of their emotional energy at the president

It's almost as if the free market has an incentive mechanism to innovate better products

I wish I had a nickel every time someone says _____ is destroying society

I made no implication that contemporary rural life is superior or in any way comparable to historical rural life.

Edit: I guess I'm being pedantic at this point. My personal position is industrial agriculture is failing rapidly and that the modern world will reconcile with the fact that either we will all starve, or learn how to farm again. I spend half the year working on an organic farm, and my life is immeasurably better than when I'm in the city (which is of course, only my personal subjective datum which and I realize how much HN hates anecdote as evidence)

I suppose I'm advocating for prevention instead of treatment and what the ideal conditions would be for good mental health so that treatment could be avoided in the first place.