Because the focus wouldn't be on profit just for profit's sake. That is the main problem with capitalism. The technologies just allowed it. Plus, technologies are not sentient, you can't blame a technology...

You are totally missing the point. American?

Edit Refrigeration is optimal, and we agree on that. Yet, meat was notconsumptwed by regular folks because aristocrats were the only ones who could afford it (and I recall that many of them died of a disease that comes from meat overconsumption). Regular folks ate meat only on special occasions. And driying it makes it last for months if not years (source: the dry sausages that I buy in my granfather's town, hand made by people, last for 14 months)

There are hundreds of ways to preserve meat without a fridge

Come on I don't think so. Lemmy was a left leaning platform since the beginning.

Yeah imagine reading this post like 30 years ago