I agree that the choices are different in the first world between poor people and people middle class and up. It’s the second group of people that I’m claiming are making (or choosing not to think about) this choice.
One can eat equally healthy food for less money, but it is less tasty. I enjoy eating meat, but vegetable protein (beans+rice, etc) is much cheaper. People have the choice to spend less on their own food, and provide more food for other people.
(More caveats: I doubt cutting your food budget is the best place to save money. I favor the giving what we can approach of pledging to give 10% of income and cut wherever you prefer.)
Somebody needs to tell this to the junk food industry.
Fill up a grocery cart with a month’s worth of potato chips. Fill up another grocery cart with a month’s worth of wheat, rice, and beans (preferably bought in bags of no less than 10 pounds). Compare costs.
Factoring in the costs of buying a car to get to a place where they sell those things? Interesting question.
Edit: That came out wrong. I think the question isn’t really that simple (opportunity costs, etc etc), but I acknowledge the disparity in price you are pointing out.
Somebody needs to tell this to the junk food industry.
It’s probably true that expensive food is, as a whole, more tasty, but I’m not so sure that the reverse holds.
I agree that the choices are different in the first world between poor people and people middle class and up. It’s the second group of people that I’m claiming are making (or choosing not to think about) this choice.
One can eat equally healthy food for less money, but it is less tasty. I enjoy eating meat, but vegetable protein (beans+rice, etc) is much cheaper. People have the choice to spend less on their own food, and provide more food for other people.
(More caveats: I doubt cutting your food budget is the best place to save money. I favor the giving what we can approach of pledging to give 10% of income and cut wherever you prefer.)
Fill up a grocery cart with a month’s worth of potato chips. Fill up another grocery cart with a month’s worth of wheat, rice, and beans (preferably bought in bags of no less than 10 pounds). Compare costs.
Factoring in the costs of buying a car to get to a place where they sell those things? Interesting question.
Edit: That came out wrong. I think the question isn’t really that simple (opportunity costs, etc etc), but I acknowledge the disparity in price you are pointing out.