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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  • Marcel 2022-03-26 09:01:08

    Looking at it, I hope that I can't swallow when I think about it, but this movie still didn't do it, alas!

  • Kameron 2022-03-26 09:01:08

    change the world, for you and for me

Food, Inc. quotes

  • 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?

  • Joel Salatin: We have allowed ourselves to become so disconnected and ignorant about something that is as intimate as the food that we eat.