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Saving this for grocery ideas haha. Wal-mart ftw

I HATE THIS POST.

This is the meme that would not die despite being wrong as fuck. *sigh*

I hate this post. Where the hell are these people buying the purportedly healthy food? I know I can’t buy a banana, potatoes, vegetables and whole-wheat pasta in my hood for $5.30. Making a comparison between fast food restaurants and Walmart is food is lame. What if there is no Walmart near you and the only healthy option is some expensive ass Trader Joe’s? What if you live in a food desert? I hate reductive things like this on tumblr. 

well, and this thing operates under the basic principle that our food system as a whole is about individual choices rather than basic injustice—that is, if you make good choices, you will be healthy and free—rather than, that bag of potatoes you just bought has so much pesticides on it, it could kill a small animal, the bananas are made using slave labor, the frozen peas and carrots have about the same nutritional value as paper and dried cranberries often have so much sugar in them as a preservative, you might as well cut to the chase and eat some sugar cubes.

that doesn’t get into all the plastic, dioxins, oil used to box and then transport the foot—or the level of contamination so much of our food supply has because food is treated as a product rather than as a human right…

as i’ve said a thousand times, you can not buy justice. demanding poor people make better choices is not a legitimate response to injustice.

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unconsumption:

This paper examines the inefficiencies in the U.S. food system from the farm to the fork to the landfill.

By identifying food losses at every level of the food supply chain, this report provides the latest recommendations and examples of emerging solutions, such as making “baby carrots” out of carrots too bent (or “curvy”) to meet retail standards.

By increasing the efficiency of our food system, we can make better use of our natural resources, provide financial saving opportunities along the entire supply chain, and enhance our ability to meet food demand.

More at: Reducing Food Waste and Losses in the U.S. Food Supply | NRDC

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The Fact That Changed Everything: Meg Glasser and Food Forward

Food Forward does what Robin Hood may have done if his beat were fruit instead of riches: Excess fruit is distributed to the people who need them.

Illustration by Jessica De Jesus

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While the latter is true, the former is increasingly not so true - as cities are trying to outlaw Food Not Bombs. 

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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!

1. that meal from mcdonalds takes virtually no time to acquire AND is available almost anywhere.
2. the second meal? that “salad” is lettuce … with nothing else, not even dressing unless its just olive oil or some milk i guess? gross.
3. 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.
4. 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?
5. 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).
6. 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.
7. 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.
8. 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.
9. 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.
10. 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.

seriously i was fighting with someone on this the other day. i fucking HATE the way these graphics spread this kind of ignorance around.

Thank you for the commentary.

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