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Precarious finances: 38% of Europeans no longer eat three meals a day (www.euronews.com)
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[โ€“] tal@lemmy.today 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

While I think that you've got a valid broader point about misrepresentation -- my pet peeve is the use of "relative poverty" in poverty infographics, which has got nothing to do with being poor, but rather is a sort of metric of inequality -- I'm not sure that describes what is going on here. They highlight Moldova as having a particularly high rate of going without meals. Moldova is not, by European standards, wealthy, but also has a low obesity rate by European standards.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_obesity_rate

You wouldn't expect to see that if the poorer == more obese effect dominated in that case.

[โ€“] JubilantJaguar@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

Finally, a decent rebuttal to my argument!

I agree about the conflation of absolute and relative poverty.