400g of cooked lentils is $4 at the IGA near my dad. That’s 2 RDI servings.
I can get a 400g tin for about 80c in the city where I live, but I can also get 250g of dried lentils for $2-3, which will easily give me 1kg of cooked lentils.
The tuna is only a 110g can for $1.50, one RDI serving.
Both the tinned tuna and tinned lentils contain a lot of water weight, which is why I’m focused on “per serving”, where the tuna is cheaper.
I’m not arguing that protein per gram per cent, the dry lentils are always cheaper, but they litteraly don’t sell dried lentils at the shop near my dad.
I have seen this same argument on Lemmy multiple times: poor people should be happy to live on beans and rice rather than have any form of animal protein, even if it tastes really good to them.
I’m not in favor of farming animals on an industrial scale, but I also hate this whole idea that poor people should be satisfied with bland, restrictive diets while the rich can eat whatever the hell they want.
454g of cooked beans or lentils is about $1.34.
Show me where 400g of tuna is $1.50. Also, a lot of that weight is water, 25% or more.
Huh?
400g of cooked lentils is $4 at the IGA near my dad. That’s 2 RDI servings.
I can get a 400g tin for about 80c in the city where I live, but I can also get 250g of dried lentils for $2-3, which will easily give me 1kg of cooked lentils.
The tuna is only a 110g can for $1.50, one RDI serving.
Both the tinned tuna and tinned lentils contain a lot of water weight, which is why I’m focused on “per serving”, where the tuna is cheaper.
I’m not arguing that protein per gram per cent, the dry lentils are always cheaper, but they litteraly don’t sell dried lentils at the shop near my dad.
Your prices are whack. You have the cheapest tuna in the world, yet the most expensive beans in the world.
Google tells me 400g of tuna is 112g of protein.
Lentils clocks in at 36g
Beans are all over the place. Some seen pretty good for protein tbh. Never heard of winged beans before.
If I needed to be that cheap, why should I care to live?
400g of canned tuna is 75g of protein, you looked up fresh most likely, not canned which contains lots of water.
Ya’ll are ridiculous.
Who the fuck said anything about canned? YOU are ridiculous.
I have seen this same argument on Lemmy multiple times: poor people should be happy to live on beans and rice rather than have any form of animal protein, even if it tastes really good to them.
I’m not in favor of farming animals on an industrial scale, but I also hate this whole idea that poor people should be satisfied with bland, restrictive diets while the rich can eat whatever the hell they want.
Fish is 80% water
I’m pretty sure vegetables are mostly water too.