alt Hacker NewsYes not gonna pull it but there's data that shows calories got meaningfully cheaper and easier to access in the United States and more plentiful from the 1980s to the 2020s.
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toasty228 • today at 12:58 PM
Oh yeah, the same exact period during which ultra processed food was introduced to the mass... interesting...
That shift might have been plausible if it happened in the 40s or 50s when the economy switched from war to consumption - but in the 80s? What kind of massive breakthrough in food production happened there that we mysteriously never heard of?