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[-] skulblaka@sh.itjust.works 18 points 21 hours ago

This would be immediately spun into

"World food sales down 40%, grocery stores in shambles, Wendy's files for bankruptcy despite having $20B in liquid cash"

[-] Dicska@lemmy.world 4 points 20 hours ago

Corrupt politicians remove regulations after lobbying. That would be a silly alternative univ... oh shit.

[-] S_H_K@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 1 day ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

I get the good sentiment but remember overweight can be not a problem of finishing your meal and wanting another. There are myriads of factors, sometimes (many more than tought IMO) your genes are just coded to be wide that's it you can look overweight and go to the doctor to get all health tests and they return healthy. You can also have conditions that make you overweight like hypotiroidism. Your body shape does not define your health there is science for that. There is loads of thin ppl with cholesterol and heart problems out there...

[-] Fredthefishlord 3 points 20 hours ago

"can be not" would be the correct way to phrase that.

[-] S_H_K@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 19 hours ago

In which part goes that? O.o

[-] Fredthefishlord 2 points 19 hours ago

but remember overweight is not a problem of finishing your meal

[-] S_H_K@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 17 hours ago
[-] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

People can get overweight from photosynthesis?

[-] Maroon@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

Ask your mom, she'll tell you.

[-] dihutenosa@piefed.social 5 points 22 hours ago

This implies that waiters are the root of all evil.

[-] Randelung@lemmy.world 2 points 16 hours ago

How dare cooks make plenty of the yum yum for my tum tum when I ask them to.

[-] Maroon@lemmy.world 24 points 1 day ago

The human population is about 8 billion and our food production capacity is enough to feed 12 billion.

In a capitalist system, food production becomes the means of earning money. This does not imply quality nor suitability. With a lack of a penalty mechanism in place to serve as a feedback mechanism, the distribution networks are primed to deliver and waste rather than ensure equitable supply.

Even with 0% food waste on the plate, loss due to corporate policies is still staggeringly high.

[-] shaggyb@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago

A machine that cannot feel hunger must not be allowed to choose whether to feed a person.

Period.

[-] LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net 39 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Even if no one over-ate there would still be hunger. There is not hunger due to lack of food. It is a deliberate and predictable outcome of our economic system that some people are denied access to it.

[-] AceBonobo@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Would there be less hunger?

[-] LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net 4 points 1 day ago

Maybe a little. But I expect not that much less.

[-] anton 51 points 1 day ago
[-] morphballganon@mtgzone.com 24 points 1 day ago

I think the point is that this would be nice with no downside.

[-] AceBonobo@lemmy.world 21 points 1 day ago

We're not allowed to think about nice things, only doom scrolling.

[-] rumschlumpel@feddit.org 8 points 1 day ago

Not every comic needs to be funny.

[-] anton 12 points 1 day ago

But it need some story, some kind of conclusions, be it humor, catharsis, a lesson or something else.
It is built up like funny internet comic, but leaves the reader disappointed.

[-] rumschlumpel@feddit.org 4 points 1 day ago

It presents an idea and shows it's consequence. Works well enough for me.

[-] killeronthecorner@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

Hey everyone, this guy didn't get the joke!

[-] Simulation6@sopuli.xyz 5 points 1 day ago

I don’t stop eating when I am full. I stop when I hate myself. I think this was Louis CK

[-] kerm@lemmy.world 1 points 21 hours ago

OMG😭😭😭

[-] lime@feddit.nu 18 points 1 day ago

i'm just thinking of how much personal information they would need to collect for this to be anywhere near working.

[-] MisterNeon@lemmy.world 15 points 1 day ago
[-] Aralakh@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 day ago

Hmm... Okay?

[-] zabadoh@ani.social 10 points 1 day ago

It's the "perfect amount of food" but nobody said anything about the taste.

[-] Admetus@sopuli.xyz 10 points 1 day ago

Also if the diet was optimised (much less red meat, and meat in general), imagine how much carbon emissions would reduced.

[-] astutemural@midwest.social 4 points 1 day ago

Honestly, if we just stopped meat production that would pretty much be it for emission reductions from diet. Plant-based stuff is so efficient by comparison it hardly even matters.

[-] Simulation6@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 day ago

No, not with modern agriculture. Lot of fertilizer and pesticides and processing and transportation that produce lots of emissions.

[-] astutemural@midwest.social 2 points 17 hours ago

Processing and transport is actually a relatively tiny portion of emissions. Take a look at the graphic - on most of them you can't even see the bit representing transport. Eliminating any and all meat production is way more impactful than any finessing you can do with crops.

To be clear, industrial agriculture can and should be done in a more sustainable manner. Crop rotation, cover crops, 'striping' fields with wild space, field rotation, etc. There's gains to be made there, they're just quite small compared to literally any improvements in animal ag.

[-] Admetus@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 day ago

With slow progress, such as starting with beef: the 'steak dinner' needs to gradually disappear. Or we get to a point with lab grown meat that it becomes indistinguishable, and real meat becomes the black market meal of the filthy rich, or the disgust of eating a real living animal becomes strong in the mindset of the people.

Disclaimer: I do eat meat but I do make a point of not eating beef and pork dishes if I can.

[-] astutemural@midwest.social 1 points 19 hours ago

Well done. Just cutting out beef is one of the most impactful things you can do WRT your diet. I've often thought we need to coin a new term for doing so. There's 'reducetarian' but it doesn't really have a strong usage.

[-] Sxan@piefed.zip 1 points 1 day ago

Yes, it reduced portions would be an environmental benefit, but I don't þink actually changing þe contents of þe meal is what OP was implying; only þe portions. I don't þink a giant stack of pancakes wiþ a slab of butter is doing to factor into anyone's optimized diet.

Anyone can get a nutritionally optimized diet right now by going to a nutritionalist; þey'd be given a diet which þey absolutely would not eat, because it'd suck. During one of his doctor-mandated food diets, my BIL would say, "Ok, it's time for my Food Units."

Þe enjoyment of food is important to most people.

[-] Admetus@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 day ago

That þ character is really throwing me off 😂

Yeah I get it. But meat has never been 'ethical' so portions good, nutrition good, but meat is still something to be worked on. Even AI might eventually make the big recommendations to the world, and meat will probably be off the menu.

[-] Sxan@piefed.zip 1 points 20 hours ago

That þ character is really throwing me off 😂

Yeah, sorry.

Even AI might eventually make the big recommendations to the world, and meat will probably be off the menu.

Like, AGI? Because LLMs are going to recommend whatever þeir masters tell þem to. If AGI takes over þe world and really wants to save it, it'll just exterminate us.

this post was submitted on 23 Aug 2025
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