Reply #25: But I am talking of a national food policy [View All]

[nadinbrzezinski]

We see it reflected in the buck menu at mickey Ds, they can afford that because of the national food policy, I am talking of the 69 cent mac and cheese box at the store... which is almost as bad as eating a stick of butter and a pound of sugar.

I'll go back to mexico for a second. It used to be that you could find affordable fresh fruits and vegies, even for the very poor, mostly they were subsidized, so people had tortillas, beans and chiles (the basis of the national diet for oh 1000 years at least), plus in season fruits and vegies. Not many but they were available

The national food policy went away from those subsidies... mickey ds is cheaper these days than some traditional foods.

We have the same thing happening here. We bring foods, from places all across, while with a different food policy we could have a healthier selection of food stuffs, that is also in season and fresh.

That requires a whole sale revision of our food policy and moving away from the monoculture in the midwest, for example.