What really gets me down is that our shopping options are often steered towards processed foods.
Take a basic cost-benefit analysis of processed foods, for example. These are an obscenely good value in terms of calories per dollar. The alternative, raw foods, take time and energy (heat/fuel) to cook before you can eat them. This puts highly processed and nutritionally poor food on the table a lot of the time if you're lacking in time, money, or both; it's the only option that makes sense in that situation. Granted, we're discounting future costs of health from a diet like this, but that's not an immediate concern when you're hungry.
What really gets me down is that our shopping options are often steered towards processed foods.
Take a basic cost-benefit analysis of processed foods, for example. These are an obscenely good value in terms of calories per dollar. The alternative, raw foods, take time and energy (heat/fuel) to cook before you can eat them. This puts highly processed and nutritionally poor food on the table a lot of the time if you're lacking in time, money, or both; it's the only option that makes sense in that situation. Granted, we're discounting future costs of health from a diet like this, but that's not an immediate concern when you're hungry.