• olutukko@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    but… they do fund the meat alternatives. thry literally pay money for that shit? I guess thst’s ehy it’s a shitpost

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      3 months ago

      They’re overpaying for them. Which then makes companies calculate “we could sell a lot of product at small profit margins to the general vegetarian and flexi public” vs. “we could not invest in production capacity and charge affluent urban vegans and arm and a leg” and guess what they’re going for.

      The reason why there’s tons of almond etc. milks costing 3-4 times as much per litre as actual milk is not because of subsidies. It’s because vegans are stupid enough to buy 20 cents of ingredients for that price.