Jandila comments on Open Thread, January 1-15, 2013 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: [deleted] 10 January 2013 07:01:56PM 4 points [-]

"People who buy less meat don't really spend less money on food overall, they mainly just spend more money on other non-meat food" -- it made me go "are you fucking kidding me" and wonder whether he has ever been to a supermarket.

Not only that, it makes me wonder if he realizes that most people in the world don't live on six figures. I remember once living on nothing but cereal, milk, eggs and kimchi for about eight months because, when rent and bills were totalled, there simply wasn't any money for more food than that.