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America's Toxic Food System | Some More News

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I'm so tired of the bitching "we can't eat healthy there is only sugar and corn".

It's absolute bullshit. Nearly every grocery store in America has a 3000+ sqft area filled to the brim with a variety of vegetables and fruit. You can buy as much grains and rice as you need.

It's 💯 lazy shopping and preferring not too cook.
- I don't think you finished the video, he explains why your last sentence is just a bad faith argument. It's a really good show with lots of information in a funny format. You should give it a try.
  
  You are going to have to be more specific. I can't deal with guy for 50 minutes even when I agree with him 😰
  
  But you just said you don't agree with him.
  
  I listened to 5 minutes of the same arguments I've heard quite often. I made assumptions on the other 45 minutes. I assume he says that going shopping every week is prohibitive as well as cooking your own food.
  
  I don't agree with any of those assessments outside of a very small populations in the US. The overwhelming majority have abundant access to a diverse set of healthy food at incredibly cheap prices
  
  So, how can you say you agree when you literally didn't watch it, and if you had, you would literally know you don't agree.
  
  The answer to your question is food deserts.
  
  As of 2023, there are over 6,500 food deserts in the United States. The USDA estimates that 18.8 million people, or about 6.1% of the U.S. population, live in a food desert.
  
  For the vast majority of people, you can get whatever you want. We should do everything in our power to ensure as much of that 6% gets closer access to healthy food.
  
  Did this video present food deserts as a more general reason why healthy food is expensive? shockedpikachu.gif
  
  So, again, you still don't agree, but said you agree, which is a lie, so how can I believe anything you say when you don't post sources?
  
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- It's such a weird thing to read over and over. But McDonald's is so much cheaper than eating healthy. Motherfucker, my favourite food right now is a vegan noodle salad. While it varies in ingredients, a whole bowl with like 500g of noodles cost like 10bucks where i live, and that is when i'm too lazy to make my own sauce. When i don't wanna do groceries, i always have rice and beans, tomatoes and canned tomatoes and noodles at home. I never keep track on what that even costs, but it's probably like 3dollars a serving. If these assholes sell you sugar bread, mix 3 to 5 ingredients and make bread.
  
  No it's not. Not in the majority of America. Who do people make this nonsense up?
  
  A double quarter pounder with cheese meal is $11 after tax. $33 to feed my family.
  
  I can feed my entire family on slightly more than than a single burger.
  
  1.5 lbs/ beef $6.50
  
  28oz bag frozen fries $3
  
  Let's say a dollar for condiments and pantry items. $1
  
  Martin's rolls: $2
  
  2l of coke $1
  
  $13.50 to feed 3 people.
  
  I can get chicken thighs for$2.50/lbs and make pulled chicken considerably cheaper.
  
  You can make it even cheaper by securing yourself a parcel of unclaimed land, stealing some animals, building a small shack, and then growing all the vegetables yourself!
  
  A cheeseburger from McDonald's is $2 × 3 = $6. You can buy a large fries for $3 and split it. Steal handfuls of ketchup and salt. $9 to feed your family of three. You can even buy a large soda and split it, ya bourgeoisie fuck, and it took you no energy or time to cook it, instead of the 1+ hour it took to make yours.
  
  Are you saying you can't use less beef when cooking at home? Or share the 2L of soda? You just used less food.
  
  You can cook 4 burgers + fries for the family in 20 minutes. Many times quicker than driving and waiting in line at peak times. This guy does it all the time https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL-tYKWQOe4YMbM7A7LELOsbQX945xEL_Q (sometimes wins sometimes loses).
  
  You need a pan, an oven, and 5 qt pot, a knife, spatula and you can basically make whatever you want. There are very very few Americans without the means to do so. https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=53439. 99.5% of households have a refrigerator. According to HUD there is a homeless population of about 500k. Even if you allow for generous rounding and assume I missing some populations right there... The majority of people have every ability to make a good meal at home for cheap.
  
  1 in 6 people are effectively homeless, lol, now let me use my refridgerator to cook.
  
  That's just not true in the US.

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