>ood meat has always been scarce and always will be
But that's not true in the slightest. Turn the clock back a couple generations. The average family had a small garden or perhaps what you might call a "farm". Garden-fresh vegetables, eggs laid that morning, and meat from the chickens that free-ranged in said garden was the norm. Even the poorest peasant had fresh eggs, fresh veggies, etc.
Nowadays we have a much better variety of food. But the quality of that food has taken a serious hit due to industrialization.
Of course you can still do a lot of the old school stuff yourself. Backyard chicken keeping is a growing trend, for example.
Nathaniel Brooks
>I'm happy to pay more for quality. Not everyone has money to pay for quality, dude. Why do people always forget that poor people need food too? The industrialization of food has allowed poor people everywhere the capability of eating foods that used to be considered a luxury such as meats.
Charles Fisher
you are using the term 'quality' in a rather subjective way
Nolan Gutierrez
The average family living in a city a few generations ago did not have any of that. They went to their local market to buy all of that.
Jordan Russell
by generations, do you mean centuries?
Sebastian Murphy
>But that's not true in the slightest. Turn the clock back a couple generations. The average family had a small garden or perhaps what you might call a "farm".
no they did not. whatever they did have would offer nowhere near enough to sustain the average modern diet in any case.
industrialisation was voluntary. people do not want to live a subsistence lifestyle.
William Hughes
>meat from the chickens that free-ranged in said garden was the norm And you are just talking out of your ass.
Colton Turner
a challenger approaches
Zachary Morris
The poor can still eat just fine. Even good quality meats are not prohibitive if you use them sparingly. And as I mentioned before, the current western diet has a massively unhealthy proportion of meat in it anyway. Eating less meat would be a good thing.
The people I know who are "poor" are that way because of bad spending habits. They constantly talk about how "poor" they are, but they eat 3 fast food meals a day, plus sodas and snacks. You could eat like a fucking king if you took that same budget and actually cooked from scratch.
The problem I see is that the wide availability of relatively cheap food has become so tempting to people that they end up spending far more money than they need to in order feed themselves.
Brody Walker
What did you think a fucking peasant farmer ate? Chicken gets too old and stops laying? That's food. What do you think people did with male chicks? You only need one or maybe two roosters for a flock of chickens. Any more are unwanted because they fight. Those young male chickens? Fucking food.
Even a lot of classic dishes originated that way. The famous French dish "coq au vin"? That's a peasant recipe: when you were so fucking poor the only thing you had to eat was the stringy 'ol barnyard rooster so you had to slow look the fucker in wine for ages in order to make it tender and palatable.
