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It's really not that easy to eat healthy on little income, especially in winter months when you can't grow much on your own. There's an upcoming documentary called Food Stamped that addresses the issue. I know for a fact I would save a lot of money eating from McDonald's Dollar Menu over what I'm doing now.

In my opinion a junk food tax wouldn't help anything unless every bit of revenue earned from it went to making healthier foods cheaper and more widely available, and it wouldn't because that's not how the government works. We need to make urban gardens in every town and city and educate people on making smarter choices, not punish them for eating what they can afford.

Maybe junk food used to be more expensive.. I'm going off when I was a young child and my mom was on welfare trying to support us.. she could only afford fruits and veggies we never had junk food in the house since she couldn't afford it. XD

That's actually really sad when food that is overprocessed and filled with so many extra things is more expensive then the real thing.

I just don't understand why someone would feed their children crap off the dollar menu.. they are growing.. they need all the nutrients they can get feed yourself the crap if you want but for children give them what they NEED.

Maybe junk food tax isn't the way to go.. but there needs to be a lot more knowledge on what our bodies need how they work with certain foods.

1. poision toxic food should be banned

2. why is adding and extra processing stuff cheaper really??? we have alternate methiods of upping shelf life

I think the cheaper nature of fast foods does have everything to do with shelf-stability. If you order a salad at Wendy's it's almost ten dollars, but they will sell you a Jr. Bacon Cheeseburger for one dollar. Places like that buy billions of processed random beef part patties and dehydrated bacon which could last for years in a freezer but the lettuce and fresher ingredients don't last as long.

Even though the salads in a fast food joint are made with lower quality ingredients, they are still perishable and therefore cost more to transport and store because they don't last long.

Also anything made with corn syrup is cheap because that's our biggest crop so it's easier to come by. If you want cane sugar you have to import it from the tropics which costs big bucks.

Organic vegetables are just naturally produced in a lower volume due to rotting and pests and therefore they are more 'rare' than heavily treated vegetables.

Organic raised meat is naturally smaller and less muscular. It takes more cattle to produce a volume of beef than it does when dealing with hormonally altered cattle.

There are a lot of reasons why junk food is less expensive but we have to try to counter those reasons, basically by encouraging everyone to grow their own.

Here y'go.

Jinx!