Why is living healthy getting more expensive?

Jamil 2022-03-23 09:02:27

I used to work part-time in the office of a department of the school. They will prepare snacks for students who come to evening classes. I'm always told to put more Coke and less juice because juice is so much more expensive than Coke.

So it's interesting: why are you promoting people to eat healthier food while increasing the cost of being "healthy" on the other?

At The Food Company, the family discovered that they could buy a hamburger for a dollar, but not a cabbage. The family saves a lot of money on food, but pays higher medical bills for the father's diabetes.

Big American corporations have industrialized everything that can be industrialized in everyday life: assembly lines everywhere, the only difference being that some lines are cars and some lines are beef.

Fully industrialized operations have made American meat cheaper and more disgusting.

"Corns have conquered the world." At least America, according to the film. Livestock raised in concentration nutrition can grow fatter at a faster rate and eat corn forage. And the feed is not eaten.


I'm someone who hasn't yet established full food values, but find that in the two years I've been in the U.S., I've put more and more things on my "foods to refuse" list: carbonated drinks, various Burgers, beef patties, fried chicken...

thought, if I starve to death one day, we're not far from the wall-e era.

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Extended Reading
  • Paris 2022-03-26 09:01:08

    Exposure to the capitalist industrial chain and self-reflection.

  • Lila 2021-12-27 08:01:11

    This is indeed an era when fresh potatoes are more expensive than Mji's processed fries, but for a teenager in Shijiazhuang who grew up drinking melamine, that is, to me, all this is nothing but clouds.

Food, Inc. quotes

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    Troy Roush - Vice President, American Corn Growers Association: You have to understand that we farmers... we're gonna deliver to the marketplace what the marketplace demands. If you wanna buy $2 milk, you're going to get a factoryfarm in your backyard. It's that simple. People have got to start *demanding* good, wholesome food of us, and we'll deliver; I promise you. We're very ingenious people, we will deliver.

  • Michael Pollan: The idea that you would need to write a book telling people where their food came from is just a sign of how far removed we've become. It seems to me that we're entitled to know about our food: who owns it, how are they making it, can I have a look in the kitchen?