Trying to soften the blow of runaway food inflation couched in claims of obesity?
Wait a minute. I thought gazillions of ‘mericans go to bed hungry every night.
What you said is true…I would also add the organic, free range and grass fed type proteins are much LESS FATTENING than the cheaper stuff…..so the whole notion of too cheap = obesity is absurd. If food prices were lower, people could more easily afford the better proteins.
Yup... They are planning to write “How fortunate that Obama is President. Food used to be too cheap!” as soon as soon as the misery index goes up another notch.
And they're the fattest Americans in America.
Gonna have to tax it for our own good like tobacco.
so making food unaffordable is good because we will all lose weight?
WTF??? What is this guy smoking?
Obviously a candidate for the most absurd headline ever written - as if such a thing were even possible.
It seems to me there are “facts” in this article that maybe aren’t. I wish I only spent 10% of income on food. That figure could be right,but will depend on the income figure it’s based on. “Disposable income” needs to be a little better defined,too.
No…food is very cheap for the obese Poor. They all have SNAP cards and can load up on groceries on the taxpayers’ dime. Meanwhile, decent hamburger is $5/lv. now for the tax drone who is financing the obese Poor. That is not cheap.
Pew Trying to get us all to feel guilty about living a decent lifestyle. Kiss my grits and pass the ribs.
More from the Population Control, Dirt First, crowd.
These elitist bastards don’t want you growing independent of gov’t control and they certainly don’t want unregulated energy independence in the third world or in America.
Cheap food and energy in America SHOULD be the gateway for cheap food and energy in the third world.
But then, those third world populations might want to control access to their own rich natural resources, which these elitist bastards would rather retain for their own exploitation.
The reason people are fat has nothing to do with the amount of fat they eat (except the hydrogenated kind), and everything to do with the processed “food” they’re eating. It’s very difficult to be overweight when your shopping cart is filled with fresh foods to be eaten as is or used as ingredients. That stated, this author is a loon.
amazing, its nothing but spin, with some truth thrown in to make it go down more easily, and I’ve joked in the last year they should tell us all its good for us because Americans are too fat, . .well here we go,
along these lines, I’ve remarked that everyone knows that soda/pop soft-drinks are 12 oz, so it wont be easy to manipulate the sizing like for almost everything else, they cant just change the shape etc.,
went to the movies last weekend and one of the pre show ‘commercials’ was promoting the new ‘mini’ soda cans for whatever they were pushing, Pepsi i think,
its coming, and Americans will believe the lie,
BTTT!
Socialists crave shortages that give them power through rationing. If something exists in abundance so great they cannot imagine it away, they try to either limit production or inhibit its use.
This is because *anything* desirable, in abundance, is an alternative currency that takes power away from those who want to ration.
In old East Germany, they tried so hard to create shortages in everything that even color and music were reserved to “honor the state”. The only paint people could buy was black, white and gray. And weirdly enough, a lot of American leftists still pine for “the good old days” of East Germany.
To Hell with them. Enjoy abundance and trade it with others.
***the depression era 1930’s****
Food was still cheap back then. My Mother-in-law said they got tired of steak for breakfast, steak for dinner, steak for supper as it was the cheapest thing around.
It was so bad the Government bought up whole herds of cattle and hogs, dug holes shot them and buried them. It was an attempt to get the price up.
The government did the same with milk, dumping lots of it in the sewers.
Ten years later the government was back begging the ranchers and farmers to increase cow production for the war effort.
How do you tell a sow or cow to produce more piglets or calves?
I’ve posted this many times, and have the cold hard facts to back it up;
Never before in the history of the world have so many people eaten such a wide range of foods for so little money as they do today in the United States.
The article in question simply confirms the above.
As one of the posted comments the article noted, the provided propaganda chart showing lower food cost over time conveniently stops in 2009, when Obama entered office. Nothing ruins propaganda more than inconvenient facts.