Reply #29: The poor can buy this stuff, but it comes at an increased cost

[MadHound]

Fresh fruit and veggies are much more expensive than canned stuff. And while rice and beans are great in the menu rotation, you really can't build your complete diet around them unless you are truly dedicated, and most people aren't. Thus if you want to get healthy cereals and snacks, you pay even more.

Go to your grocery store and compare, item for item, the price for a normal, chemical filled HFCS laden product with its organic, healthy counterpart. You will find that the prices for the healthier alternatives is much higher. Way to have compassion for the poor:eyes:

Oh, and if all the sudden you're going to dump millions of people on a diet consisting of fresh fruit and vegetables, well guess what, you're going to be contributing even more to climate change, since all that fresh fruit and veggies will have to trucked in, in ever greater quantities from even further away, all year around. Tell you what, why don't we start taxing your food based on the number of miles it travels(me, I won't have to pay a thing since virtually all my food is local). Oh, wait, that's money out of your pocket, we can't have that now, can we.

Again, if you want true, effective change in our food supply, put some real leaders, who aren't beholden to corporate interests, in charge of the USDA and FDA. Of course that rules out the current administration, given that Obama's cabinet is made up of nothing but corporate whore, with one or two exceptions.