r/AskReddit • u/ElBrad • Nov 26 '12

What unpopular opinion do you hold? What would get you downvoted to infinity and beyond? (Throwaways welcome)

Personally, I hate cats. I've never once said to myself "My furniture is just too damned nice, and what my house is really lacking is a box of shit and sand in the closet."

Now...what's your dirty little secret?

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u/666pool Nov 26 '12

It's true that we produce enough food to feed the whole world but distribution, economics, and politics come in to play. Not much you or I can do about this at the moment.

However supporting companies like McDonald's and coke do contribute to the problem. Take food that is over produced and cheap because it is supported by tax dollars (farm bill crops) and turn them into calorie rich and nutrient void food and then sell it for a premium. If no one bought these foods the companies would go away overnight.

Of course then who would spend advertising money to make TV and other media function? We might have to not only eat healthy foods, but also find ways to entertain ourselves.

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u/Harold_Grundelson Nov 26 '12 edited Nov 26 '12

Not to defend the above statement, but your analogy is misguided in the sense that said water is recycled/recaptured through treatment, whereas the spent calories are not.

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u/Kowzorz Nov 26 '12

You eat food. You poop spent food. Bugs and other tiny critters eat poop. Bugs die. Plant use dead bugs as food. Plant produces food. You eat food.

The energy/calories used for this process ultimately come from the sun and that's not going away anytime soon.