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Great point. To coincide with others, I have a feeling our car-centric lifestyles are a huge reason for this kind of eating (Apart from all the marketing shoved

Great point. To coincide with others, I have a feeling our car-centric lifestyles are a huge reason for this kind of eating (Apart from all the marketing shoved in our faces.) If you look at the majority of cities in North America they have under 500,000 people, are very widely spaced out, and generally have poor public transit. I'm moving to a city with pretty good public transit and I look forward to leaving my car at home on a more common basis. In my current city, it takes me 2 hours to get to work on public transit for a 27km trip. Educating people on cooking their own food is a problem that I think many people are trying to solve but how do you beat the efforts of multi-billion dollar corporations marketing all these efficient, easy, and un-realistically "healthy" products?

Mz 17y ago
Great point. Thanks. but how do you beat the efforts of multi-billion dollar corporations marketing all these efficient, easy, and un-realistically "healthy" products? You give them something genuinely superior and let them choose on their own to vote with their feet? (so to speak, as someone who tries to promote a pedestrian lifestyle :-D )
sorbits 17y ago
how do you beat the efforts of multi-billion dollar corporations Pass laws about proper labeling of foods, what can even be sold as food, and educate the public about healthy eating (which doesn’t necessarily require home cooking or to take more time). I think that is probably the root of the problem, that food in the US is not labelled and regulated as strongly as in most of the EU. Related to the discussion: http://www.foodincmovie.com/ http://www.foodincmovie.com/
kjhghjmkedfcv 17y ago
Who wants to beat them? Those $Bn corporations put tins of tuna, different beans, tomatoes on store shelves for pennies. They even go to the trouble of coloring the good value cans differently for me. The same corps deliver basics foods like onions, potatoes, carrots, rice year-round for roughly the cost of transport. All I have to do is open the cans, mix them together and cook for 20mins and I can have healthy tasty veggie food in about the time it takes to deliver a pizza. And a big thank-you to all the people that buy the frozen ready meals that subsidize this.

Mz 17y ago

Great point. Thanks. but how do you beat the efforts of multi-billion dollar corporations marketing all these efficient, easy, and un-realistically "healthy" products? You give them something genuinely superior and let them choose on their own to vote with their feet? (so to speak, as someone who tries to promote a pedestrian lifestyle :-D )

sorbits 17y ago

how do you beat the efforts of multi-billion dollar corporations Pass laws about proper labeling of foods, what can even be sold as food, and educate the public about healthy eating (which doesn’t necessarily require home cooking or to take more time). I think that is probably the root of the problem, that food in the US is not labelled and regulated as strongly as in most of the EU. Related to the discussion: http://www.foodincmovie.com/ http://www.foodincmovie.com/

kjhghjmkedfcv 17y ago

Who wants to beat them? Those $Bn corporations put tins of tuna, different beans, tomatoes on store shelves for pennies. They even go to the trouble of coloring the good value cans differently for me. The same corps deliver basics foods like onions, potatoes, carrots, rice year-round for roughly the cost of transport. All I have to do is open the cans, mix them together and cook for 20mins and I can have healthy tasty veggie food in about the time it takes to deliver a pizza. And a big thank-you to all the people that buy the frozen ready meals that subsidize this.