Re:An Italian farmer found some unknown seeds in his attic a...
by vintermann on Sunday November 01, 2026 @11:10AM
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That highlights the oddity of your calculations. You say that wheat is cheaper, but little about why. If the economies of large scale processing makes more processed wheat cheaper than less processed wheat, then maybe something else would be cheaper if our habits were different. So it's dubious to use the cheapness of white flour to argue that we should eat more white flour products.
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Re:An Italian farmer found some unknown seeds in his attic a...
by soco on Monday November 02, 2026 @04:35AM
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"if...were" means nothing today, because woulda, coulda, shoulda. Today white is cheaper, so the calculation stands as it is, and makes for a very interesting argument in today's flood of influencer diets/fads.
Re:An Italian farmer found some unknown seeds in his attic a...
by vintermann on Monday November 02, 2026 @05:38AM
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It's very unlikely to matter economically for you or me or the op that whiter flour is cheaper. Bringing it up suggests it matters in some other way - like we have an obligation to buy the cheaper option because that has least impact on the environment maybe? But that does not follow at all. I don't think we should award points for originality either.