• archomrade [he/him]@midwest.social
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    2 months ago

    Their link was addressing the claim that eating vegan is a luxury.

    For what the comment was responding to I think it was perfectly well framed, but you can extrapolate anything you want from it if that’s your thing.

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      2 months ago

      heir link was addressing the claim that eating vegan is a luxury.

      and it did so misleadingly, as being in teh position to always pay full price for food at a store is a luxury.

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        2 months ago

        as being in teh position to always pay full price for food at a store is a luxury.

        Not if by ‘cost’ they meant ‘cost’, and not ‘what they get from the state at no cost’

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                2 months ago

                What they claimed was “a whole foods plant-based diet is 30% cheaper.”

                Which is factually supported by the study, even if you’d prefer to interpret it to mean something else

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                  2 months ago

                  What they claimed was “a whole foods plant-based diet is 30% cheaper.”

                  Which is factually supported by the study

                  …for a limited segment of the population.

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                    2 months ago

                    It’s actually not speaking about the personal costs born by consumers, it’s talking about the cost of purchasing food for the diet.

                    As I said, if the paper was discussing the systemic hurtles and personal choices of consumers it would be a different paper, saying a different thing.