It’s both. Junk food as indulgence is a personal responsibility, especially when you can cook at home cheaper than buying processed crap and most meals are ~30 minutes if you have decent knife work and competency. The reason Coca Cola profits so much off EBT is that the people receiving EBT are lazy and want junk food. You can also argue that these companies make their food intentionally addictive and go out of their way to make sure EBT covers their poison. This is however no different than the neighborhood dilemma, when any neighborhood can increase or decrease in value based on either government intervention or how the community treats its land.
I disagree with the fact that you can cook at home cheaper than buying processed crap. At the end of the day, buying healthy ingredients will cause costs to go up, especially when meat is involved.
It’s true, I’ve done it for over a decade. Especially when you consider macros and nutrient density. If everyone bought healthy ingredients the market would change to reflect it. Currently demand is for shit food that’s precooked so that’s what is being supplied.
It would make the market change slightly the problem is that factory farming inevitably creates shit food that's low cost. Why farm all sorts of different foods when you could just grow an infinite amount of corn syrup for ALL foods.
Agricultural Commodities traders linked with Agribiz like Cargil are also partly to blame for this because they are trying to set the market. They don't want retailers, grocers, or anyone really, to buy food that they didn't make. So, they'll make contracts to monopolize what retailers can even purchase.
It’s both. Junk food as indulgence is a personal responsibility, especially when you can cook at home cheaper than buying processed crap and most meals are ~30 minutes if you have decent knife work and competency. The reason Coca Cola profits so much off EBT is that the people receiving EBT are lazy and want junk food. You can also argue that these companies make their food intentionally addictive and go out of their way to make sure EBT covers their poison. This is however no different than the neighborhood dilemma, when any neighborhood can increase or decrease in value based on either government intervention or how the community treats its land.
I disagree with the fact that you can cook at home cheaper than buying processed crap. At the end of the day, buying healthy ingredients will cause costs to go up, especially when meat is involved.
It’s true, I’ve done it for over a decade. Especially when you consider macros and nutrient density. If everyone bought healthy ingredients the market would change to reflect it. Currently demand is for shit food that’s precooked so that’s what is being supplied.
It would make the market change slightly the problem is that factory farming inevitably creates shit food that's low cost. Why farm all sorts of different foods when you could just grow an infinite amount of corn syrup for ALL foods.
Agricultural Commodities traders linked with Agribiz like Cargil are also partly to blame for this because they are trying to set the market. They don't want retailers, grocers, or anyone really, to buy food that they didn't make. So, they'll make contracts to monopolize what retailers can even purchase.
Which I can agree with