greenmedic88 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"? |
The thing is only health conscious people are in the habit of sourcing out most, if not all ingredients in the foods they eat, almost always prepared themselves.
I suppose one could use the "don't know how to boil water let alone the first thing about seasonings and spices" argument of ignorance against prepping one's own food, but I'd wager to say it's typically more of an instance of "just don't want to, would rather eat take out."
Taste-wise, if one regularly eats foods with the amount of sugar or salt found in most processed foods (diabetes or stroke inducing), natural foods are typically going to taste blander unless one detoxes from the former.
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