cross-posted from: https://feddit.org/post/3142575
Data is fugly. Should be order by the per capita number , unless the intent was to mislead
this post was submitted on 24 Sep 2024
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Totally. There's really no point in using anything /except/ per capita!
Per capita with total as tiebreaker:
Brazil 94kg
Germany 78kg - 17% less than Brazil
China 76kg - 2.6% less than Germany
UK 76kg - 2.6% less than Germany
USA 73kg - 3.9% less than UK/China
France 61kg - 16% less than USA
India 55kg - 10% less than France
Russia 33kg - 40% less than India
It's a population chart...
Per-capita figures are on the right. I think this metric should be given the bar chart.
The solution I propose: every household gets a government issued pig.
It's crazy when you think about the whole supply chain: preparing the soil, ploughing, applying fertilisers, applying pesticides, harvesting, processing, transporting, and then you just chuck it out and each step of production had its footprint.
It's why expiration dates must be updated to reflect real expiration dates, not "best by". We toss large amounts of food because of that. Probably large amounts of restaurant waste, too.
It's crazy when you think about the whole supply chain: preparing the soil, ploughing, applying fertilisers, applying pesticides, harvesting, processing, transporting
It's also crazy how efficient modern agriculture must be to do all these things and get affordable products in the end
efficiency ≠ price
you've glossed over a lot of economics. Like, for one thing, the EU gives about €55 billion in agricultural subsidies a year.
Cost of production puts a lower bound on the price. In case of competitive industries, price floats just above that limit
Right. And food is sold at below that lower bound, which is one reason it is affordable.
How much is this percentage wise?
this seems like a useless metric as is
Brazil...we need to talk.
Not terribly clear as to why.
Actually, that's a good thing, because if some extraordinary event happens, like a gigantic volcano eruption, we want to have food to spare.