I'll truncate your word salad and focus on this stuff.
"Markets tend to right size themselves over time to supply chains and vice versa over time". Perhaps you didn't read the post you are responding to. In order for that process to happen, businesses have to expand using debt - but Trump appointee Jerome Powell jacked up interest rates and prevented it from happening. If COVID funding went to existing companies, they have no incentive to use that money to expand if they are profiting heavily because competition is bogged down by high interest rates.
Do you see the irony of
1) one of our most nutrient dense foods, but cattle farming is under large scale attack from multiple angles
2) The food pyramid that was rolled out 40 some years ago is pretty much the same diet we use to fatten animals for slaughter.
If we feed cattle feed corn - complete junk and the primary ingredient in soda, and not what cattle have evolved to feed upon - why is it you think that garbage input produces good food.
Your argument here is also pretty bogus in that - if you make the argument that a hamburger is one of our most nutrient dense foods, you ignore that the input cost is so high that we could produce substantially more sum total nutrients at the same cost. Measured in dollars, measured in water, measured in arable land, measured in fertilizer costs, measured in waste disposal, and on and on. The attack on beef is not a coordinated attack - it's just simple economic realities that it's inefficient. We've responded to this inefficiency by making the product more and more inferior, while depleting water supplies and being poor stewards of land (our own with 10/10/10 NPK and the runoff into the waterways, Amazonian land via mass burning, etc...)
As for soda - soda taxes have been proposed in many places - mostly blue areas (NYC and SF are the primary examples). The lobbying against them wasn't by big corn, it was the American Beverage Association. The argument has been the standard pablum of your ilk - "But muh freedom".
Sorry it went over your head.
There was nothing partisan in my post, there is no irony between those two statements, (sure grain fed beef won’t be as nutritious as grass fed, but beef animals still rearrange a grain based diet into high quality protein with high mineral and vitamin content that’s not that easy and cheap or tasty to get from plants themselves)
I’m aware beef production is inefficient which is why I said it was under attack, and drinking a lot of soda is stupid and not a position of my “ilk”
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