• silence7@slrpnk.netOP
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    1 day ago

    Olive oil doesn’t scale to match anything near current human consumption — a big chunk of what’s sold as olive oil is already counterfeit.

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      16 hours ago

      I don’t quite follow. You’re saying that because not everyone can feasibly partake in healthier food, nobody should? Also, the current economic realities around certain food items aren’t fixed in stone. Taxes, tariffs, regulations, and all sorts of other policy levers can make big changes to the market.

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        15 hours ago

        No, I’m saying that it isn’t possible significantly shift peoples’ diets to olive oil from other fats and oils because olive oil consumption is supply-constrained.

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          12 hours ago

          Okay… But it’s still a healthier solution than vegetable oil or tallow for the portion of the population that can be supplied with it, right?