The Cruel Fantasies of Well-Fed People
Great TFA but I partially disagree with this:<p>&gt; A healthy, nutritious diet is much more expensive than a calorie sufficient one. As a result, three billion people cannot afford a healthy diet.<p>Is that so? My wife is the kind to obsess on healthy eating and always tells me it&#x27;s <i>cheaper</i> to cook healthy than to cook unhealthy stuff. She&#x27;s the kind that forces me to eat soup as dinner and that&#x27;s it. It&#x27;s not expensive to buy a few vegetables and to make soup.<p>(we buy, weekly, stuff from a local farmer btw and it&#x27;s not exensive at all and he&#x27;s happy to see people not buying <i>everything</i> from the supermarket)<p>Eggs aren&#x27;t expensive: I find eggs super yummy.<p>Lentils, canned tuna (I love that: I just love that, not too sure if it&#x27;s healthy or not but it&#x27;s cheap), advocados (ok, they may be a bit pricey), corn, there are fishes that are cheap...<p>It&#x27;s <i>easy</i> to go to a drive-in and buy junk. But they&#x27;re not handing that junk for free at drive-ins. People who buy that could buy vegetables instead. Sure, there may not be same amount of calories and fat and whatnots but seen the average overweight person, I&#x27;d argue that that&#x27;s... A good thing?<p>I mean, put it this way: it may be expensive to buy healthy food and yet end up as fat and unhealthy as when buying ultra high fat, ultra high calories, junk food... But maybe, just maybe, you don&#x27;t need to be that fat and unhealthy?<p>My eight years old kid has been conditioned by my wife to only health healthy stuff: she sees a Mc Donald sign and pretends to throw up.<p>I understand that people can&#x27;t be bothered to buy healthy stuff and don&#x27;t have the will to eat reasonable amount of food and can&#x27;t be bothered to make soup but I don&#x27;t buy the whole &quot;fat people are fat because they&#x27;re poor&quot;.<p>They&#x27;re fat and unhealthy because they are eating junk.<p>There&#x27;s a spectrum between &quot;Supersize me&quot; and &quot;three-star restaurant selling $$$ sushis&quot;.