If you are on an extremely high income then the health benefits might be worth it.
Otherwise go to Lidl or Aldi on a Saturday night when a lot of the meat has 30% off stickers. Buy whatever cuts are cheapest. Freeze the meat as soon as you get home. Then buy kale, broccoli and frozen mixed veg to eat with the meat and splash out on swimming pool fees or a day out hiking or trail running or mountain biking or wild swimming.
Perhaps income level doesn’t actually have anything to do with it. If the health benefits are worth it and you don’t pay for the expensive meat, then you risk developing health problems down the road which will cost you even more money.
Put differently, if you view it as an investment, and if that investment has a positive ROI, it’s probably worth making regardless of whether or not you are wealthy. Caveats include things like opportunity cost and whether you have enough cash on hand to make the investment in the first place.
Haha yup. But even beyond that, even if you had all the money in the world there is still a cost to developing diseases — lowered quality of life, increased risk of dying early — and I suspect that even if you just look at that cost, it would outweigh the extra money spent on higher quality meat.
If you are on an extremely high income then the health benefits might be worth it.
Otherwise go to Lidl or Aldi on a Saturday night when a lot of the meat has 30% off stickers. Buy whatever cuts are cheapest. Freeze the meat as soon as you get home. Then buy kale, broccoli and frozen mixed veg to eat with the meat and splash out on swimming pool fees or a day out hiking or trail running or mountain biking or wild swimming.
Perhaps income level doesn’t actually have anything to do with it. If the health benefits are worth it and you don’t pay for the expensive meat, then you risk developing health problems down the road which will cost you even more money.
Put differently, if you view it as an investment, and if that investment has a positive ROI, it’s probably worth making regardless of whether or not you are wealthy. Caveats include things like opportunity cost and whether you have enough cash on hand to make the investment in the first place.
You might be right. I forgot that the OP is in the US, where healthcare is absurdly expensive.
Haha yup. But even beyond that, even if you had all the money in the world there is still a cost to developing diseases — lowered quality of life, increased risk of dying early — and I suspect that even if you just look at that cost, it would outweigh the extra money spent on higher quality meat.