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Originally Posted by JWithers
Good point. It was kind of a dog-and-pony show.
It seems to me that with the epidemic of diet-related health issues, it would be a priority to make healthy foods less expensive, or increase the supplement for WIC and food stamps. That's just good business sense for old Govco. Damage control. Paying for sick people with no insurance is a lot more expensive.
When my grandparents went through the depression, there were a lot of truly poor and hungry people. But this country was still a very rural one and many people had access to foods grown and raised on their own farms in in their backyards. They may not have had much but at least it wasn't nutritionally bankrupt. Those are real options in today's world. At least not for most of us.
So that $21 is a big part of a family's total grocery budget (hopefully not the enitre budget). I am sure most families have some other means, but I will bet it's not much.
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with all thats being said in this thread...if we keep things up...in order for us to get totally healthy food we may hasve to start hunting and growing our own food again...heh
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