Would you support a ban on processed food

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Healthy food already is relatively more affordable than processed food.

Wrong. An apple costs more than a bag of doritos.

Have you been to a grocery store lately? A family size bag of apples is about the same cost as a family size bag of doritos.

Beans, legumes, rice, frozen vegetables, and water are all infinitely more healthy and considerably cheaper than a ton of processed food at the grocery store.

All of those items you listed have been processed, smarty.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Healthy food already is relatively more affordable than processed food.

Wrong. An apple costs more than a bag of doritos.

No it doesn’t! I have a kid who loves Doritos. We severely cut back on chips and store bought cookies like chips ahoy etc because the prices skyrocketed.

[Anonymous]

Just tax corn syrup more or limit the subsidy it gets. It will eliminate so much of these foods. Cheap calories from corn syrup prop up so much of the ultra processed things. Anything with corn syrup or palm oil needs to cost way more.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:What if government tries to make healthy food ingredients affordable and heavily taxes unhealthy packaged and processed food and beverages ? Would you support any such effort?

The problem is that the government currently subsidizes most of the crops that highly processing foods are made from.

How about we stop subsidizing those and subsidize regenerative farming and whole food production with fewer chemicals.

I would support food stamps to only go to Whole Foods rather than processed junk which would alleviate food deserts as retailers would have to adjust.

Yes! Stop subsidizing corn, wheat, soy, milk. Start subsidizing arugula, broccoli, sweet potatoes. Will save healthcare costs. FWIW, I’m not MAHA, just tired of bringing my own dinner to baseball games.

[Anonymous]

No. Stupid idea.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:A ban? No

Would I support improved nutrition education in schools, and improved food labeling so people have a better sense of what choices are healthiest? Probably

Would I support increased restrictions that take some of the most problematic ingredients out, like they have in the EU? Probably

Would I support taxing certain ultra processed foods, and then using those tax dollars to subsidize people having access to healthier foods? Probably

Would you support this administration deciding what constitutes a better nutrition curriculum? Or problematic ingredients? Or which foods are considered “ultra processed” and should be taxed, which foods are “healthier” and should be “subsidized”, and which people should have access to those foods?

[Anonymous]

The morons that think they are intelligent by pointing on the continuum of processed food are just that - morons. I’m about as conservative as they come and even I could come up with a system for categorization. But even then, I wouldn’t support any kind of tax.

In the end, we will continue to have a bimodal distribution of health and intellect in the US. I don’t think you are going to be able to regulate that. It’s been this way for a long long time.

[Anonymous]

Wholeheartedly. It's already banned in my house so I'm losing nothing.

[Anonymous]

Processed food is definitely far more expensive than a simple apple. The science to make it, people to market and package it, the chemicals needed to make it...awful!!!

[Anonymous]

A prohibition on production of a product?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What if government tries to make healthy food ingredients affordable and heavily taxes unhealthy packaged and processed food and beverages ? Would you support any such effort?

They won't. They don't care if people get sick or die.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Define “processed food”.

Exactly. What are you talking about?

The entire chip aisle is there becuase of corn subsidies. Has anyone told the corn farmers about this?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What if government tries to make healthy food ingredients affordable and heavily taxes unhealthy packaged and processed food and beverages ? Would you support any such effort?

The problem is that the government currently subsidizes most of the crops that highly processing foods are made from.

How about we stop subsidizing those and subsidize regenerative farming and whole food production with fewer chemicals.

I would support food stamps to only go to Whole Foods rather than processed junk which would alleviate food deserts as retailers would have to adjust.

Yes! Stop subsidizing corn, wheat, soy, milk. Start subsidizing arugula, broccoli, sweet potatoes. Will save healthcare costs. FWIW, I’m not MAHA, just tired of bringing my own dinner to baseball games.

So you think if they do this you'll be able to get a sweet potato at the snack bar? Has anyone told MAGA about this? I feel like this is so Blue City Urban Elite they will lose their minds.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yes. People do what’s cheap and easy. The problem is that eating crap is cheap and easy NOW but is very expensive for us later when it comes to paying for obesity, diabetes, hypertension, other conditions. It’s also not easy, as we need to consider what our limits as a country will be in supporting people who are expensive to care for and don’t have possibility of a healthy recovery. We need to make junk as hard for people now as their medical care will be for us in the not too distant future.

And the idea of teachers handing out junk food in school classrooms as rewards and incentives is completely outrageous and needs to be banned TODAY.

And some people love their alcohol. Are you going to ban that too? If so, I’m in.

[Anonymous]

I'm all for a ban on junk food for those with SNAP/EBT.

Or restrictions placed on how much (dollar value) of each monthly allotment can be processed junk food.

I've been behind so many people checking out with EBT where 99% of their cart was just junk food. Fish sticks, french fries, boxed mac & cheese, hot dogs, chips, candy, cookies, etc. and very little fresh fruit and veg.