Re:Vertical farms grow veggies on site at restaurants and gr...
by taurath on Wednesday January 20, 2021 @11:47PM
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The quality of accessible food in so much of the US is astoundingly bad. Most meat cheese and vegetables sold by the largest distributors (and therefore what most people eat) are not great - I compare most lunch meat to the meat equivalent of canned green beans. Let alone the added sugar..
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Re:Vertical farms grow veggies on site at restaurants and gr...
by mschuster91 on Thursday January 21, 2021 @06:19AM
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> Most meat ... are not great
A key part of this, related to the massive opposition of the EU against importing US agricultural products, is how the US treats farm animals.
Chickens have to be washed with chlorine and eggs with water, simply because the conditions in farms are so utterly inhumane and disgusting that without doing this, the products would be an actual danger for the health of the people eating it. The advantage (from a business point of view) is that the production costs are way lower than if European standards (which aren't that great either!) were followed.
To refer to an old meme... choose two of "fast, cheap and high quality".