• ArmchairAce1944@lemmy.ca
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    No shit Sherlock. This stuff needs to be acknowledged and show just how much food waste it is causing, too.

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    What if, and hear me out, America’s food and grocery stores weren’t owned by monopolies? What if there was actual market competition?

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    Note that this does not in any way make coca-cola better than pepsi. They’re both rotten to the core and it would be best to avoid products from both companies.

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      If you’re desperate for fizzy juice, soda machines are great and work out cheaper in the long run than buying bottles of juice regularly. Also, no constant plastic bottle waste.

      Although maybe don’t get a SodaStream… It’s a PepsiCo subsidiary headquartered in Israel.

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        I have a 35lbs CO2 tank in my basement that I use to carbonate 2L at a time of water. Just a pinch of pickling salt makes it super crispy. I think it cost me like $40usd. Some one have me the regulator, and I connect it to a carbonator cap using a Cornelius keg fitting. Tank lasts me years.

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          Due to living in the United Corporation of Great Tesco and Northern Wetherspoon I can’t view your linked image :(

          But aye, PepsiCo is huge, Pepsi is what they’re most associated with though so soda machines are an alternative to both Pepsi and Coca Cola.

          Learning how to make a ginger bug is also an option if you don’t want to buy equipment and CO2 canisters

      • some_kind_of_guy@lemmy.world
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        I’ve got a soda siphon of European origin that takes 8 gram CO2 cartridges and carbonates a liter of water at a time. Just as easy as a SodaStream, but perhaps more expensive to run because you have to get the individual small cartridges.

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    Pepsi also is still operating and even expanding their operations in Russia as competitors like Coca Cola have withdrawn after the Ukraine War.

  • Boomer Humor Doomergod@lemmy.world
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    From the abstract of the study linked in the article

    From 2006 to 2020, poorer metropolitan statistical areas experienced annualized food inflation that was 0.46 percentage points higher than that of richer ones—amounting to a cumulative difference of 8.8 percentage points over the period. Poorer areas also had fewer goods, fewer retailers, and higher market concentration

    Also gotta say, linking to an actual study that early in an article is pretty legit.