Quote:you can't tax food by it's health benefit...There would be lawsuits forever about taxing unhealthy foods and not  healthy foods

 

I agree 100% about healthy foods being much more expensive...I'm diabetic and I am supposed to eat a low sodium, low carbohydrate, low sugar high protein, all natural diet...All the stuff I'm supposed to eat is so much more expensive than the regular stuff...I have been asking for years why the so called organic foods cost more and no one has an answer...I would think they should be cheaper...Supposedly there are no  fertilizers used, no pest killing sprays, no artificial lighting, so there should be less labor and materials used in producing such foods, therefor. the cost to produce these foods should be less but instead they are higher...People buy into the hype of organic or all natural this or that and they buy it...If people would would being such suckers and paying such high prices for that stuff, the price would come down

 

 

It'll never come down until the price of the unhealthy stuff goes up. Yes, healthy food should be cheaper, but it isn't because they know people want it and television and media keep telling us that we must eat healthy or we will live shorter lives. This drives the demand up and the price goes up. People who can, spend the extra money on healthy foods do it out of fear of dying early. As long as they keep shoving that fear of death down people's throats the demand will be there and the price will stay high. It's a vicious circle, but an ingenious marketing campaign (if you have no morals.)

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