Monetary cost is the wrong y-axis here, as it optimkzes only for mega-scale farming without taking its real costs in consideration. It should be ‘true cost’, which also accounts for environmental-, animal- and climate mitigation cost. And subsidies.
What's the cost of an animal's life, human or otherwise?
I recognize you're trying to add in externalities that haven't been included, but determining a cost of life links it to some sort of utility, which I don't think it should be. Sentient lives should never be treated as a means.
I agree with you on principle, but this chart is economics-based, like it or not. And many people do think like that.
My point here is for them: this chart is not realistic. For example, it almost equates lentils with chicken. Even though chicken involves a lot more costs, including in animal welfare, societal, etc.
Thank you.
I had pinto beans and rice today. Beans, lentils, and peanuts make up the majority of the protein I get, turns out it's probably because of price.
Lentil gang!
While I agree with the general sentiment, it's absurd to compare dried pasta to foods that dont need to soak up water.
Pasta will pick up about 100% of it's volume in water when cooking and has about half the density of water from what I could find right now, so your 100g of dry pasta would be 300g of cooked pasta, so the effective protein density is 1/3 of that displayed on the chart
I always knew brussel sprouts were terrible.
micronutrients are also important and greens are often good with those
