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Re:Readers on food inequality in eastern Europe by virtuabhi on Saturday September 23, 2017 @11:22AM (#15320122)
> for example, soft drinks and candy bars would be sold with HFCS instead of sugar, chocolate will have lower % cocoa. You will find artificial colorings, preservatives and, generally, all kinds of artificial flavor improvers over healthier, more natural ingredients that are found in the Western versions of the same products of the same brand names.

Are you talking about USA?

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Re:Readers on food inequality in eastern Europe by alt_f4 on Saturday September 23, 2017 @11:24AM (#15320132)
Nope, but it is generally well known to us, Europeans, that a lot of the food sold in the US is of lower quality, which is contributing to the US obesity epidemic, cancer rates, heart issues... This is starting to become a problem here too.
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Re:Readers on food inequality in eastern Europe by faster on Saturday September 23, 2017 @11:44AM (#15320222)
When I returned to the US after living in Western Europe, the hardest thing to adapt to was the quality of food in the supermarkets. I left the first two grocery stores empty-handed because nothing looked like food to me. It was all cardboard and plastic and sugar in all its various forms.

However, high quality food is available, but it requires time (to go where it is, since it isn't always distributed like the plastic-wrapped sugar stuff) and money, though not always more than the stores charge for mass-produced things.

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Re:Readers on food inequality in eastern Europe by alt_f4 on Saturday September 23, 2017 @11:53AM (#15320263)
In the US, unlike most cities in Eastern Europe, you at least have the option to pay a premium and get high quality food.
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