• Mangoholic@lemmy.ml
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    3 months ago

    My biggest complain with all these vegan alternatives, is the price. If you are selling fake chicken thats the same price as regular chicken, It is exploitation.

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      3 months ago

      If everything was equal (scale of production, subsidies, decades of shipping logistics worked out) I’d agree, but I don’t think vegan cheese is anywhere near that.

      A good start would be to remove subsidies for livestock and their feedstocks. I think that would already bring the cost of vegan alternatives a lot closer.

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      3 months ago

      That’s because veganism is predominantly an upper class and upper middle class phenomenon. So these products are marketed as luxury goods. They take a ton of R&D and capital investment to develop and the sales volumes are very low.