{"id":765,"date":"2020-04-14T17:25:03","date_gmt":"2020-04-14T21:25:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/travellingcryptographer.com\/blog\/?p=765"},"modified":"2020-04-14T18:26:12","modified_gmt":"2020-04-14T22:26:12","slug":"unsupported-conclusions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/travellingcryptographer.com\/blog\/index.php\/2020\/04\/14\/unsupported-conclusions\/","title":{"rendered":"Unsupported Conclusions"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lately I feel as though I’m drowning in a sea of unsupported conclusions whenever I read the news. Today’s winner is this article<\/a> from the New York Times, which includes the statement “Americans eat many more vegetables when meals are prepared for them in restaurants than when they cook for themselves”.<\/p>\n

I’m not going to debate the underlying causes, motivations, or possible fixes for the disastrous affair that is our current food growth and distribution system, at least not in this post.<\/p>\n

Instead I just want to point out that:<\/p>\n

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  1. The correspondence between (food bought by restaurants) and (food bought by restaurants that is eaten by humans) is not one-to-one. The restaurant system is not zero waste.<\/li>\n
  2. You cannot draw a conclusion about how many vegetables Americans generally eat when cooking at home vs restaurants\u00a0in the context of a global pandemic<\/em>. For example, consider the added anxieties people are experiencing with respect to grocery shopping:\n