Galaki said:
mrstickball said:
The anti-corporate conspiracy theories are pretty hilarious.
Poor people have no desire to make food, and would rather buy junk at the store that is pre-made and unhealthy.
In America, you can make healthy, delicious food for cheap. The problem is that you absolutely have to make it either from scratch or in some way that is rather labor intensive. Few people really want to do that, so they go the easy route. Why do you think that the food companies are trying to push EBTs to begin to accept fast food? Because the poor don't want to make food themselves, and they would be entirely willing to eat junk food 3 meals a day if they could. Simply because its easier.
I work with lots of people in poverty. I see it all the time. No one is willing to eat healthy because they assume that healthy food doesn't taste good, when it certainly does, but it merely takes effort to learn to create tasty, cheap, healthy meals.
I mean, heck, for $2 a meal, I can make a phenomenal sandwich on homemade whole wheat bread with very few calories. The difficulty is that I have to cook the meat, and bake the bread. When was the last time you saw someone in poverty say "I can't buy flour to make my own bread, or tomatoes to make my own sauces"? |
Believe it or not. It may be easy for you but...
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And why isn't it easy for them, exactly?
The cost of cabbage in the US is $0.29/lb where I live, and 10x that for the same amount of ground beef. Most meats in the US start at $2/lb and go up from there, while almost every vegetable I can think of is under $2/lb. Ultimately, like so many things in life, there is simply a lack of goals and desire to heat healthy food. Just like there's a lack to learn outside of education, or a lack of drive to do other such productive things. All it takes is a few hours at AllRecipes.com to build a virtual lexicon of healthy items to get.
I've had this argument with many, many, obese Americans. They always blame something that is supposedly out of their control - corporations, society in general, the cost of healthy food, and so on. They never, ever, want to admit that any fault lies with themselves, when in reality, most of it is their fault. Yes, corporations play a part thanks to their generous meat and dairy subsidies which lower the true price of meat and dairy, but that isn't the end-all in regards to blame.
