Why is Healthy Food more expensive then Junk Food?

Posted by: theblues

17th May 2011 08:57am

Am I the only one that has noticed that it is cheaper to buy junk food or fast food for your family then it is to buy healthy foods?
I want my children eating healthy fresh fruit, vegetables, meats and fish, but the costs keep getting higher and higher that it is harder everyday to cook healthy meals. To help I have turned my garden into a vegetable garden but that isn't the solution for all of us.

jjdrer

27th Jan 2014 02:26pm

Raw Sugar is more expensive yet uses less processing. There are many foods like that.
Getting away from foods, fuel used in farm vehicles such as tractors, harvesters etc, and other road transport (it transports our food) is far more than unleaded petrol yet it is cheaper to refine. Even some of the oil companies will admit to that.
We are being ripped off because of the price of fuel over & over because of that. It all adds to the price of our food, whether it be fresh or processed in some way.

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