Monday, June 28, 2010

Is it possible to produce health food that is affordable to the masses

Is it possible to produce health food that is affordable to the masses?

Diet & Fitness - 4 Answers
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1 :
It's been here all along. They're called VEGETABLES AND FRUITS.
2 :
no
3 :
There is an abundance of grains, fruits, vegetables, milk, meat and fish products. The problem is the politics of distribution and poverty.
4 :
Monoculture food is cheaper to buy in the grocery store, but more expensive to produce. Monoculture often uses triple the water that is needed, yearly synthetic fertilizer, and yearly pesticide, nematocide, fungicide applications. These aren't paid for by the customer, but by the government. So, our taxes are paying for most of the cost of a head of non-organic lettuce. Additionally, monoculture usually has to travel an average of 3 times further than organic food, so we have to consider transportation subsidies, oil wars, and road maintenance. The pesticides destroy ecosystems, but it turns out that the fertilizer is even worse, causing huge dead zones in bodies of water, where, economically, all fishing dies out. In short, health food (organic) is much much less expensive to produce than what we've grown to accept us 'regular' over the last half century. It just costs more at the grocery store because of the way we let business work. I didn't even mention the difference between vegetarian and animal meat. Last I heard it was something like 600 lbs. of grass to get one pound of beef. Sure we can't eat grass, but we could be growing wheat or beans

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