Tony Blair says junk food should be made too expensive for the poor to afford through new sugar and salt taxes to tackle obesity
Tony Blair says junk food should be made too expensive for the poor to afford through new sugar and salt taxes to tackle obesity
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How about instead of punishing "the poor" with new taxes we just made healthy food cheaper.
How about actually giving people the time to actually prepare a healthy meal.
No one wants to spend 30mins to an hour cooking a good meal when they only get 4 hours of time to themselves a day. Reduce everyone's working hours and make them actually want to live a healthy life rather than treating them like consumables to be used up by businesses and replaced with their offspring.
This is exactly the kind of thing is expect from someone so far removed from the day to day reality of normal people.
I said it above, but buying the fresh produce and ingredients to cook up a meal, note costs me just as much as it would to go grab fast food. And like you said, it saves me the time and saves me having to be in a hot kitchen for an hour when it's 35⁰ c outside.
I mean it really doesn’t. There’s literally no fast food you can’t do cheaper at home. Sure, you might have to pay a bit more, but you’ll then have at least twice the amount of food.
This assumes you have storage space, utensils to cook with, money for power to cook, access to a kitchen , etc
Obviously.
Living at a hotel is also cheaper then an apartment if we consider the cost of rent, a bed, electricity, water and etc.
But living at a hotel is obviously not cheaper than renting an apartment, and no one would argue that for like 99% of cases. Perhaps for a couple of days, but long term it will get much more expensive.
As with fast food.
I still like the idea of making junk food more expensive though. Stay with me for a second on this:
If only the rich can afford it they might consume it more often to separate themselves from us plebs. With a bit of luck that leads to them suffering health problems. And going back to healthy food would mean giving up on priviledges, so that wont happen.
No need to eat the rich if they perish on their own ;-)
If they're all very fat, won't that be better for basting?
What if, instead of perpetuating the narrative of diet culture and "healthy food" vs. "junk food", we worked harder to provide food for those who actually need food. What if, and hear me out here, we educated people on making healthy decisions and more importantly, maintaining a healthy, positive relationship with food and their bodies?
Isn't healthier eating more about convenience than education or anything else. If it's easier for people to eat healthy compared to eating unhealthy, they'll take that up.
Path of least resistance and all that
That's a good point, I hadn't considered that! Have a lovely day.
Meal prep then, cook a big meal or two on Sunday and eat them though the week.
There's so much that's less than ideal about this. A lot of people don't have a big freezer. Some can't afford to pay for bulk ingredients up front. Some people won't have a half day spare to spend it cooking, especially if they have kids. And then there's the depressing aspect of eating the same food everyday.
I'm lucky I enjoy cooking so don't mind it taking up my evenings (nor do I have kids or a small freezer or work full time on minimum wage) but even I balk at the thought of meal prepping.
2 meals for 5 days is pretty boring also, it takes a significant amount of time of my Sunday to batch cook. Preparing the meals, cooking, cooling, portioning, and washing. Not to mention there is still plenty of time to he spent preparing the meal on the day such as cooking veg, rice, pasta etc to go with it.
The food in Britain is already ridiculously cheap. And yet people choose to eat shit instead.
I'm glad to see people like you who thinks that eating shit is a choice. It's cute.
Let me explain how it works for some who are not as privileged: when people are hungry, they buy cheap. It doesn't matter if some over privileged cunt think they are eating shit. It matters that something fills hungry, grumbly tummies. Especially for ones with kids. People really need to get off their fucking high horses and just let people eat. Jesus. It's not hard.
Yes it may not be the healthiest. But it sure beats outright starvation.
That's not true for UK where, once again, food is RIDICULOUSLY CHEAP. You can literally make three meals for a price of one ready meal from supermarket without bulk buying in advance. People who eat shit are fucking idiots to say the least.
The real privilege here is defending unhealthy life styles and choices instead of promoting healthy and cheaper ones. UK public is way too rich to be able to overprices shit and fight for it.
I agree with your sentiment, but how can people be starving if obesity is an epidemic?
In a country with national healthcare, do you not think people have a degree of responsibility to manage their own health to avoid being a burden on the system? Freedom to eat what you like and get obese may work in the US when you or your insurance company has to pay for treatment later in life, but here it's society that has to pony up because you choose a Maccy ds over ten minutes at the stove.