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I think we need to make it cheaper (via subsidizing fresh produce instead of the corn and cattle industry) relative to processed food and the rest will take care of itself. Funny thing is, people will scream "social engineering" if you say this, yet they're perfectly content to ignore the current social engineering.

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This, times 1000. The only reason it's so cheap to eat at McDonald's is because of subsidies given to industrial beef, corn, and soy.

It's really not cheap to eat at McDonald's. You can buy a dozen eggs at the supermarket for the cost of one Egg McMuffin.

I think it's shortsighted, naive and optimistic to expect that subsidization of "fresh produce" would produce any better results than the current system.

After all, there's nothing inherently wrong with corn or cattle when they are produced in traditional ways, ie. corn that is not optimized for yield, sacrificing it's taste, and cattle is fed on grass, not on corn (which makes it sick).

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