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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]NP. This is a thread about improving food quality. No mention of junk food is appropriate here, unless we are condemning it.[/quote]

It’s appropriate because the vast majority of American general population diet is junk food.  The quality of milk, eggs, fruits/vegetables is a moot point because people aren’t even cooking actual food anymore and they don’t want to healthy foods.  It’s all about convenience crap.  Everyone is too “busy” to cook a decent meal, [b]no matter how simple [/b]and affordable it actually is. So unless that culture changes and or junk food is taken off the shelves, people are still going to be overweight and unhealthy. 
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As the mom of a family with multiple, conflicting food restrictions and a tight budget, I find this so triggering. Cooking is NOT simple for me. If I’m making a pasta dinner, I’m making the sauce from scratch and cooking three different pastas/pasta alternatives. Cooking is hell. I do it because I’m a responsible adult, but I never liked it and resent that every time we find a new food intolerance, I need to find new recipes. Yet again. These are not small things. My kid will scream in agony on the toilet if I’m not paranoid. Yes, we eat organic. [/quote]

Cooking is a lot of work even with no allergies, so I sympathize. I spend so much time cooking for my family as we don't eat out. But even my doing this means we eat some undesirable things: I'm not making bread from scratch often, and store bought bread, even from a supermarket bakery and baked on premises, can have way too many ingredients. There is no good bakery near me that has just the flour/salt/water kind. As for raising chickens, btdt growing up and it's not that easy. Same with planting a garden. It takes effort and as someone mentioned it comes with its own dangers depending on soil. It's not reasonable to put the effort on Americans, who work such long hours and with so much stress, to work hard as well to access good, simple products which should be affordable and available to all the way it is in many countries.[/quote]

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