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How America’s Diet Is Feeding the Groundwater Crisis | As dinner tables and snack menus feature far more chicken and cheese, farms are expanding where water is scarce. (www.nytimes.com)

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These transformations are tied to the changing American diet. Since the early 1980s, America’s per-person cheese consumption has doubled, largely in the form of mozzarella-covered pizza pies. And last year, for the first time, the average American ate 100 pounds of chicken, twice the amount 40 years ago.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

your propaganda campaign isn't addressing everyone equally. if it's successful at all, it will disproportionately effect one segment of the population.

[–] derf82 1 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Facts are not propaganda.

And, no, it won’t. Hell, I’d rather rich people stop having kids more than any other demographic. They use by far the most resources.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

, no, it won’t.

anyone who doesn't have Internet access or who can't read English can't be effected by your propaganda campaign.

[–] derf82 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Jesus, get over it. It’s a fucking Lemmy post, not a campaign.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

it seems you know I'm right and now you want to quibble about semantics

[–] derf82 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

No, I am 100% sure you are both wrong and a complete douche.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

calling me names doesn't change whether I'm right.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago

Facts are not propaganda

it's called "white propaganda"

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

facts are propaganda when stated in the context of attempting to induce a political position.

[–] derf82 1 points 10 months ago (2 children)

So you admit everything I said is a fact?

But, no. Propaganda is misleading. And yours is propaganda.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago

So you admit everything I said is a fact?

debatebro harder

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Propaganda is misleading.

not necessarily. it can be dishonest by simply not giving all the facts.

[–] derf82 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Tell me, what facts are missing?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

you aren't being honest about the fact that any policy or even propaganda campaign aimed at reducing birth rates will necessarily be eugenicist since it will disproportionately impact each demographic differently.

[–] derf82 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I am being honest, because I disagree.

I am telling everyone that they should have fewer kids. I am forcing that decision on no one. You just disagree.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

I am telling everyone that they should have fewer kids.

english-speaking literate people with Internet access aren't everyone.