Nel 2024, l’8,5% della popolazione dell’UE non era in grado di permettersi un pasto contenente carne, pesce o un equivalente vegetariano ogni secondo giorno, 2 ° più basso in Irlanda
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di NanorH
Nel 2024, l’8,5% della popolazione dell’UE non era in grado di permettersi un pasto contenente carne, pesce o un equivalente vegetariano ogni secondo giorno, 2 ° più basso in Irlanda
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di NanorH
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Source: https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/products-eurostat-news/w/ddn-20250828-1
It would be nice if they properly defined what they consider “vegetarian equivalent”. There’s definitely a gulf in price and availability between actual vegetables; and protein alternatives such as tofu, paneer, seitan, mycoprotein, etc.
That’s such a broad metric. In fact I don’t understand it. What’s a vegetarian equivalent? Define meat is it a portion of chicken, pork, beef, lamb or is it sausages? Is a can of tuna with spaghetti a meal or a snack?
The situation in a lot of European countries isn’t all that rosey. Just look at where Germany and France is on that list.
That just shouldn’t be possible – seems a mix of stagnating economics and dismantling of services by a few decades of centre right austerity economics has undermined a lot of things.
I’ve felt that very much when I visited France, having spent a lot of time there in my teens – it just feels like a lot of things have been cut back, despite high tax. It just had a sense of the floor that used to be there – the one that was the minimum below which you couldn’t drop now has holes in it and political attitudes in some quarters have hardened in ways I never thought I’d see in France – suddenly a rather Tory economics vibe to some of the centre right, who used to be more Gaullist.
The UK is even more dramatic – parts of it genuinely look like they’ve really declined over the last decade or so. You don’t really see it in London etc, but you do in some other places that were ticking over back in the early 00s. A lot of public spending into communities, including as welfare, stopped and that money hasn’t been replaced – things just sank. That money used to get spent straight back into the local economy, so the cuts were amplified.
Also in 2024 – the annual [Child Poverty Monitor](https://childrensrights.ie/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Child-Poverty-Monitor-2024.pdf) published by the [Children’s Rights Alliance](https://childrensrights.ie/) spelled out the reality of life on the breadline in Ireland.
A total of 260,773 children had experienced “enforced deprivation” – where a household experiences two or more “deprivation items”.
“These are children that might go to bed hungry in a week or do not have clothes or shoes that fit for school,” the alliance said. The number involved amounts to “more than the population of Clare and Waterford combined”.
> “Almost 9% in the EU could not afford a proper meal”
This is the title Eurostat gives to the article. Does it mean that a vegetarian meal is not a “proper meal”?
A friend of mine living in London who worked for years without saving , now in his mid 50s is unemployed and lives on benefits , he stays in bed 2 or 3 days a week so as not to spend money , he lives the other 4 days on a once a week shop in Iceland of packs of frozen burgers etc … England is becoming a third world country as well for many
These are always nonsense, anyone can afford a tin of beans and some rice or pasta, or a loaf of bread, may not be tasty but it definitely forms a meal