German shoppers, who enjoy some of Europe's cheapest groceries, are being asked this week by discount supermarket Penny to pay extra for some items to cover their "true cost" as it seeks to raise awareness of the environmental price of producing food.
  • boredtortoise@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    The thing is that capitalism wants to keep customer costs high for environmentally better products and services so they aren’t the primary option in the illusion of choice given to people.

    • hh93@lemm.ee
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      1 year ago

      Have any more of those conspiracies where you are from? What else are “they” controlling?

      Seriously right now the cost is higher because of economical scaling not being nearly as efficient with better products since there isn’t enough demand.

      Meat replacements got much cheaper in the last 5 years because they managed to scale better because more people kept buying them and they likely could go even cheaper but apparently people wouldn’t trust replacements under a certain price point (but somehow they don’t have a problem buying pork for even less money)

      • bentropy@feddit.de
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        1 year ago

        Could you explain the absurd high price of oat milk to me? I mean oat is cheap af, water is cheap af and the infrastructure to produce and package is already well established. But still, oat milk is compared to what it is insanely expensive…

        If you look closely you’ll see that investment firms like black rock, vanguard or staat street have their fingers in and in part control over almost all global companies. And evan without that fact - maximizing profits and growth - is kind of the main mantra of the global economy.

        Saying scalability is the main factor for higher prices and capitalists controlling prices would be a conspiracy theory seams very shortsighted and, sorry, uneducated to me.