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by majormajor 1571 days ago
"Times were better when we didn't have enough to eat, curse this surplus and our lack of self control!"

Strange to see such paternalism about people making unhealthy dietary choices from a crowd I mostly associate with libertarian thinking.

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I don't think libertarians believe that government subsidy leading to monocropping is inline with their way of thinking.
What's really being said here is "people need to make better nutrition choices." Or can you support a claim that highly processed super-tasty engineered and mass-produced food is purely a function of ag subsidies? And that there would be no market pressure to create such a thing in your world.