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Monetary cost is the wrong y-axis here, as it optimizes only for mega-scale farming without taking its real costs in consideration. It should be ‘true cost’, which also accounts for environmental-, animal- and climate mitigation cost.
And subsidies
Indeed. I pay taxes that will become subsidies for a lot of those things in the charts, especially those I don't even consume.