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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]No one in the US has to processed food.  People WANT to. I’m sure when you are vacationing in Europe you aren’t going to the equivalent of Applebee’s, Subway, getting bagged snacks at gas stations, or rolling through McDs.  You are making intentional choices to seek out good fresh food. But we have plenty of good fresh food in the US too

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While this may not be an issue for the OP, your sweeping generalization is off the mark. Compare the cost of a large jar of corn syrup laced apple sauce with say, 8 fresh apples, or better yet, 8 fresh organic apples from an actual farmer’s market.  The price per serving is easily over twice as much for the apples.  Now do that with meals for a family of four for a week.  So, yeah, we do have plenty of good fresh food in the US — although I’d add that the EU standards are the ones that I’d prefer. It’s not true, though, that “No one in the US has to (eat)processed food”.  
I could say more about quality, access, and preparation time, but prices alone are enough to make the point.

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You don’t NEED a large jar of corn syrup apple sauce. If you can only afford one bag
of apples per week then buy that.  Same with bananas, carrots, potatoes, etc.  Buy what you can afford.  Fill up on lentils, brown rice, oats, eggs, milk, plain yogurt.  So many adorable foods out there.  Maybe you don’t get 5 servings of fruits and vegetables per day.  Better to fall short than supplement with garbage.  Notice no one is starving to death in the US.  People are eating themselves to death instead [/quote]

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