Did they ever?

nervous tissue straight from the chickens brains.

We definitely have that problem, but I think targeting meat and dairy should be the first targets to cut subsidies. They're the biggest offenders. Put that subsidy money towards creating and marketing plant-based alternatives.

Plus, since a good amount of corn goes to animal feed, you'd be reducing the demand.

I don't see how you'd be able to convince farmers to not farm, though. Even if you paid them to not farm, they still want to farm. Nobody does it for the money. (Except corporate farms, of which there are a lot, and they'll find ways to both not farm and still make money off the land, like haying or logging.)

We grow all this unnecessary corn so we can be self-sufficient on food at any time, in case a world war breaks out

In theory it could be positive because it provides a better bargaining position for the US to de-escalate a potential world war

I'd rather we stop it because it's wasteful, and that bargaining position could easily be used for brinksmanship by the US (which we have somewhat seen with Trump, although not yet at that level)

tbh i only dont like coca-cola cause of that one Xmas ad...

KFC is worse in the US?

If you haven't had it in 17 years, I don't think you're qualified to talk about the quality over time

I actually happen to know KFCs processes from 2009. They were breading and cooking the chicken in-house still back then

Workers would take the chicken, toss it in dredge, egg wash, then breading, before going to the fryer

If your chicken was soft, it was probably an abcess that a minimum wage employee missed

Super greasy was standard. They've fixed that a bit, but everything else has gone way downhill. They no longer prep in-house, and it really shows

I remember KFC as a kid and I thought it was decent the few times I had it, but then...I was a kid in a very rural area and we didn't eat out very often.

Then I had some in the late 90s and I thought it was so disgusting, I never went back. The co-workers I went there with (I forget why we even went since there were better options - maybe it was about trying to get something really fast) all compared what we got to rat meat...

I've been vegetarian the past 20+ years so obviously it's a no-go now anyway, but I think it's been pretty bad for a very long time.