VeganRachel
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Another issue regarding the "cost" of food, is the diseases created from it. Medical care is expensive compared to eating healthfully..I volunteered at a food bank before I retired. All of these elderly people, with oxygen tanks and motorized scooters, would come in to pick up their food. I protested the kind of food they were giving to these vulnerable people. Their boxes would be filled with giant boxes of Ho Hos, Nutty Bars, candy, Mac and Cheese, Hamburger Helper, white bread, Soda Pop, Juice drinks, potato chips, and huge packages of meat.
I was appalled when I saw a 300 lb. diabetic woman, in a motorized wheelchair with an oxygen tank, picking up her boxes of meat, dairy, and processed food.
That is why the poor have the worst health outcomes.
Inner cities/poor area's are known to be food deserts, where only fast food restaurants and very small grocery stores are there. It
is therefore convenient to eat the processed foods that are local.