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Governments around the world heavily subsidized and promoted these "foods" in the fiat century.

I challenge you to remove them from your diet for a month & then respond to this tweet with your impressions of the kind of impact these subsidies & policies have had on the world.
Bonus points for responding with details about how the policies and subsidies of your particular government managed get this sludge down the throats of generations of your people.
For background reading, I recommend Weston Price's Nutrition and Physical Degeneration, the most important book in nutrition, completely ignored by fiat universities of course.

And/or read @drcateshanahan 's Deep Nutrition, which summarizes Price's work with modern implications.
How much does your non-fiat food cost today, and how much did it cost 50 years ago in your country and currency?

How does this increase in the price of the actual food compare to the rise in the CPI?
'Fiat food' has made urban dictionary. This is @bitstein's meme world and we're all just learning to live in it.
I discuss the link between fiat money & fiat food in Lecture 6 of my online course ECO31. You can find the whole lecture here for free:
zoom.us/recording/play…
You can find the syllabus, and purchase the full 10-lecture course on: saifedean.com/the-academy
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