Pesticides allow millions of people to not starve to death. A generalized statement like "Pesticides are bad" is simply ridiculous.
Heck it compares with processed foods!
I went to "www.webstaurantstore.com" (?) and compared salmon to a cheap mass produced ham (that is both are animal protein).
$10/lb for salmon vs $8/lb for the ham. Hardly a huge difference, but one is very processed with lots of salt and nitrates.
you can find $2/lb ham, but you can't find salmon for that price.
lb/$10 will be transformed into something like 300g after cooking process, and for person with minimum wage, it means he needs to work for 1h after taxes to get 300g of product, this is like pre-industrial level of productivity and income.. And there are people outside US with even lower wages.
- 300 grams is not a bad serving.
- for the folks on minimum wage, its only 12% of their income which Im not sure if its a bad ratio historically.
- "man does not live on bread alone" ie, you can't eat cheap ham everyday, nor should salmon be a daily staple. But variety of food is a necesity, not a luxury.
- ham at $2/lb sounds disgusting and probably causes more health problems (nitrates) than just eliminating animal protein.
- My wife used to live on minimum wage with no external help padding her income. She still ate a serving of fresh salmon every week.
Im sorry, but if farmed salmon is a luxury, as a society our standards of living have collapsed.
yes, in the last two decades wealth gap became larger, and poor became poorer.
Humans thinking, they own Earth and can do whatever they want even if it kills everything else can never be regarded as good.