Protein?

[Arlekino]

I am confuse about food some people told me that capitalist food industries take away proteins to make of more profits. I am almost sure 20 years food taste better and we don't have to eat so often because we full up from small portions than now, is that because of more protein was or not?
Would somebody open my mind please thanks.

[MarxSchmarx]

I am confuse about food some people told me that capitalist food industries take away proteins to make of more profits. I am almost sure 20 years food taste better and we don't have to eat so often because we full up from small portions than now, is that because of more protein was or not?
Would somebody open my mind please thanks.

I'm not sure I really understand what you are asking, but you are posting from England so I think I can more or less figure out what you are getting at.

In essence I think that it is true that protein, as a share of our diet, has shrunk in the global north like England, but the opposite is true in places like India and China.

Thus it is perhaps debatable that protein as a share of diet has decreased on average. Portions at restaurants have also gone down in many places, due to a relentless increase in food prices for several years now.

But what has happened in most advanced, industrialized countries is that the agricultural model continues to move to favor starchy diets based on wheat/corn, maize, and rice built on heavy subsidies. Also, as new markets have opened up, the production infrastructure of places like Australia and Brazil have shifted from traditional exports like beef to things like rice (Australian and American exports to Asia) or soy (Brazilian exports to America, Asia and Europe). Animal feed continues to be produced in massive quantities to feed the growing demand for red meat in places like China. This is also true of middle income countries like Turkey and Mexico, where staples have traditionally been heavily subsidized but greater reliance on them is needed as farmers are flooded with imports from North America and Europe and where the availability of cheap starches have almost replaced traditional meals. For example, large parts of Mexico were once rice and bean eating regions, but have become far more tortilla based. Similarly, bread in Turkey is now ubiquitous even in regions that were traditionally bulgur consuming.