Name the ways in which your food snobbery oppresses people

[Anonymous]

I'll start:

If you eat avocados, you support murderous cartels:

https://inteligencia.io/money/avocado-cartels/
https://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2020/02/07/avocados-mexican-drug-cartels


If you're one of those snobs eating healthy quinoa, you are a big part of the reason why people in c
Central America can no longer afford to eat an ancient grain they've been growing for thousands of years:

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/jan/16/vegans-stomach-unpalatable-truth-quinoa
https://web.colby.edu/st297-global18/2019/01/22/superfoods-dark-side-increasing-vulnerability-of-quinoa-farmers-in-bolivia/

If you drink Chilean wines you run afoul of all sorts of human rights issues regarding water access and water rights:
https://www.nrdc.org/experts/carolina-herrera/chiles-ongoing-water-crisis-threats-and-needed-actions
https://en.mercopress.com/2021/08/13/chilean-agriculture-and-fruit-producers-suffering-the-hydric-crisis

This is just a tip if the iceberg. So how are you contributing to the oppression of peope based on your food choices? Go!

[Anonymous]

I like foie gras and lamb so I guess I just oppress cute animals

[Anonymous]

It’s not snobbery to eat quinoa or avocados, OP.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It’s not snobbery to eat quinoa or avocados, OP.

It is. You are part of the problem. How's it feel to support Mexican cartels who murder people with your avocado toasts and guac?

[Anonymous]

There is no ethical consumerism under capitalism. I thought this was generally established.

(I drink a ton of dairy. Even though I buy locally and ethically sourced meat, the dairy industry is hopelessly intermingled with factory farmed beef, which aside from the cruelty to animals aspect is also a huge contributor to antibiotic resistance.)

[Anonymous]

If you drink almond milk, you're contributing to drought in Northern California.

Almond milk is a crime.

[Anonymous]

So we should only eat food we grow in our backyard? Or is that a waste of water?

[Anonymous]

My food snobby friends oppress me by forcing me to eat dumb quinoa salads and other ridiculous, expensive, snobby foods when what I really want is a chili dog.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So we should only eat food we grow in our backyard? Or is that a waste of water?

And probably inefficient land you unless we all restrict ourselves to local native plants/animals. (I'm the no ethical consumerism under capitalism poster. ) My take from these kinds of conversations is not that people should be shamed for their food choices but that every food choice has bad consequences so everyone needs to make their own personal choices about what is healthy/important for them personally and not go around scolding other people for making different ones.

[Anonymous]

I don't eat the organic, locally sourced vegetables I buy, I just want the cashier to think I care about future generations.

[Anonymous]

“Chilean Sea Bass” is terribly overfished.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:“Chilean Sea Bass” is terribly overfished.

And SO delicious if prepared right.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It’s not snobbery to eat quinoa or avocados, OP.

Plus one

Poor descriptor

More like myopic personal health consciousness that is oblivious to the ways your choices may hurt others.

[Anonymous]

My MIL asked once (early on) if I liked salmon and I was like "yeah I love it" and she presented us with salmon from a TIN CAN. I had literally never eaten salmon from a tin can, I'd only had smoked or fresh salmon previously. In my snobbery I refused to eat it (it smelled disgusting).

Does that count?

[Anonymous]

I only eat lime jello, not orange.
Does that count?