Re:Adult Obesity Facts
by maerF0x0 on Friday August 27, 2021 @12:39PM
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Michael Pollan (in his cooked netflix show) has pointed out that the cost of "junk food" has been heavily subsidized (eg corn subsidy), but fresh produce has not. Subsequently the consumer price of each has fallen, or risen a lot, respectively.
One policy choice (amongst many required) could be to stop subsidizing the inputs to junk food.
Another policy I've heard talked about by Joel Salatin is that a lot of low processed foods are getting crushed by regulation because the cost/barriers are very high and demand scale/volume. For example poultry processing is only feasible on a massive scale because of regulation policies like (paraphrased) "there must be a dedicated washroom onsite for the inspector to use". That makes no sense if you only process 10000 birds a year (something like $100k of gross market value).
One policy choice (amongst many required) could be to stop subsidizing the inputs to junk food.
Another policy I've heard talked about by Joel Salatin is that a lot of low processed foods are getting crushed by regulation because the cost/barriers are very high and demand scale/volume. For example poultry processing is only feasible on a massive scale because of regulation policies like (paraphrased) "there must be a dedicated washroom onsite for the inspector to use". That makes no sense if you only process 10000 birds a year (something like $100k of gross market value).