Paradigm Shift
Last Updated June 16, 2011 · First Published July 6, 2010
What if…
…instead of highlighting the occasional healthy option on a menu, we put warnings on unhealthy items?
…we paid for food on a per-calorie basis?
…we subsidized fresh, whole fruits & vegetables, instead of corn?
…we stopped labeling foods made without pesticides as “Organic” and instead labeled foods grown with pesticides as “Toxic?”
…what if we frowned upon overeating the same way we now do upon smoking?
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Photo by Kevin Hudkins.
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Why are healthy foods (like whole grains and fruits and veggies) so much more expensive than processed crap!?
It has to do, in large part, with farm subsidies. We subsidies Corn to the tune of something like $4 Billion/year. Soy beans aren’t far behind that. That makes it cheap to produce low-quality food and feedlot beef… thus artificially reducing prices.
Shelf life has a lot to do with it, too. Getting real, fresh produce to the consumer is very time-sensitive, of course. But that box of Mac ‘n Cheese can sit on the shelf for years…