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For the most part, supply follows from demand than the other way around. If people cared more about healthy food more than convenient and tasty food, then compa
by Aunche 1y ago
For the most part, supply follows from demand than the other way around. If people cared more about healthy food more than convenient and tasty food, then companies will sell and advertise healthier food. Chinatowns were historically poor, but they never turned into food deserts because vegetables are a quintessential part of Chinese cuisine.
Taxing unhealthy food may work, but that would also piss a lot of people off who have their palates destroyed from eating too junk food, especially since you'd need taxes to be high enough to basically force people to change their habits. Subsidies for healthy food tend to benefit the the upper-middle class the most. Subsidizing school lunches that are both healthy and not disgusting is the only option I see as both feasible and effective.
- ethbr1 1y ago> Chinatowns were historically poor, but they never turned into food deserts because vegetables are a quintessential part of Chinese cuisine. The key component you're talking about here is culture, which is absolutely malleable to advertising over intermediate timespans. Look at the Chinese shift towards greater amounts of meat consumption, driven by its promotion as a symbol of wealth. And many of these beliefs are set in childhood. Imho, the rest of the world would do well to follow the Japanese/French tradition, where introducing children to healthy food options is taken seriously.