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Wait what and how? Also why?

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Is Junk Food Really Cheaper?

The answer is NO.

The “fact” that junk food is cheaper than real food has become a reflexive part of how we explain why so many Americans are overweight, particularly those with lower incomes. I frequently read confident statements like, “when a bag of chips is cheaper than a head of broccoli …” or “it’s more affordable to feed a family of four at McDonald’s than to cook a healthy meal for them at home.”

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this bullshit fills me with a very specific kind of rage. so, TIME TO DEBUNK!

that meal from mcdonalds takes virtually no time to acquire AND is available almost anywhere.
the second meal? that “salad” is lettuce … with nothing else, not even dressing unless its just olive oil or some milk i guess? gross.
also thats the price of each serving, not an entire loaf of bread, a bottle of olive oil, etc. that stuff adds up which means you have to have a lot of money at one time to buy it all.
that meal probably took an hour and a half to make, which is a long fucking time when you work multiple jobs or are caring for a lot of people or dont have help! seriously, if you are a single parent of three who works, is spending an hour and a half every night preparing a meal a likely option?
same with beans and rice! also, you know whats a fucking bummer? eating beans and rice every night because you are poor. ask any person who has done it and they will tell you (you can start with me).
there is a “nutrition” argument here that lacks a follow up: poor people are more likely to be doing physical labor and need more than 571 calories per meal.
you know who is less likely to know how to bake or prepare a chicken? people without access to the internet, or libraries, or who werent taught how to by their parents because their parents worked all the time. access to healthy foods is a classist issue and classism is cyclical, you fucking morons.
seriously, these sorts of infographics make me want to fucking flip tables. do you know why people don’t eat more fresh fruits and vegetables? because fresh fruits and vegetables are expensive, because they take a long time to prepare, because they dont live near a grocery store that has a decent produce section, because they dont have reliable transportation to get groceries to and from the grocery store, because they dont have the energy to plan all of the shit that is involved in making healthy, intentional, filling, balanced meals. basically: poor people get fucked, and then we get BLAMED for being lazy.
eating “healthy”, aka access to fresh fruits and vegetables, is a privilege, first, foremost, always. so fuck you new york times and your ignorant goddamn infographic.
there are SYSTEMATIC REASONS that we do not have equal access to fresh fruits and vegetables. they are very REAL problems. besides, you know, systematic poverty in america, the total mis-distribution of farm subsidies is a perfect place to start. read about that, then either get bent or start working on the actual problem.

In which fad dieters forget about the dollar menu

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Galaxy brain: why don’t the poor working 100 hours a week simply spend hours of their previous little resting time to prepare healthy meals which require utilities and kitchen equipment they may or may not have access to? Being unhealthy and poor is a choice 😌😇

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Double debunking:as a poor college student who was busy from 4:30 am to 10 pm at night I can say eating healthier did end up being a hecking lot cheaper and cooking doesn't take as long as people think. Perspective and approach is everything. I taught my roommate this because when I crunched the budgeting numbers we were losing 2x the amount of money through fast food. Fast food became a treat. While our diet was healthier, and usually not too bland.... sometimes it was a little blah. That being said we did save alot, not to mention we got sick less often so could work more.

We saved enough to get makeovers(walmart style) and were by no means rich (rofl college ate all my money).

This does however vary based on where you live. Certain areas accommodate healthy food for just as cheap or cheaper than junk food. Other areas are food islands that only accommodate specific types of diets, frequently junk food diets.

So while this info graphic may be wrong in some living areas, in others it is in fact correct.

Source: The New York Times