I know it’s a shipost and this meme is at least 15 years old. But meat, cheese, and white bread (especially the ones in the US with added sugar) were never healthy

meat, cheese and bread were never healthy, says a man descended from 10 thousand years of meat cheese and bread eaters

it’s about the scale at which these items are consumed - eating meat every day was pretty much unheard of

Was it capitalism or was it refrigeration?

capitalism has led to never before seen economies of scale, allowing for dirt cheap food prices never before seen in history. if we were to look at capitalism through that metric and that metric only then it would be wildly popular…

did capitalism do that, or did technologies like aircraft and refrigeration do that?

why would economies of scale not exist under a different socio-economic system?

Because the focus wouldn’t be on profit just for profit’s sake. That is the main problem with capitalism. The technologies just allowed it. Plus, technologies are not sentient, you can’t blame a technology…

Because the focus wouldn’t be on profit just for profit’s sake

what socioeconomic system has existed where increased productivity was viewed as a bad thing?

e.g.:

• pure feudalism would've led to economies of scale because it would make the king of the castle wealthier.
• any kind of socialism with a centrally planned economy would've led to economies of scale because it enables the government to more easily meet the needs of the people.
• even pure marxist communism probably would've led to economies of scale eventually because any communities that worked together on a global scale would've been more prosperous for their community members, which is still a goal of the system

The technologies just allowed it

or in other words, their invention led to it, which was the original quote I was responding to

Plus, technologies are not sentient, you can’t blame a technology…

• socio-economic systems aren't sentient either
• nobody's "blaming" a technology—there isn't even really a consensus in this thread on whether economies of scale leading to increased meat consumption is a good or bad thing