Just been thinking about it. Promotes healthy eating, but it also seems regressive. Is healthy food subsidies the better option? How do you implement it? Maybe healthy food subsidies financed by junk food tax seem like the best option? Discuss
Just been thinking about it. Promotes healthy eating, but it also seems regressive. Is healthy food subsidies the better option? How do you implement it? Maybe healthy food subsidies financed by junk food tax seem like the best option? Discuss
Sin taxes don't really work and just make it more expensive to be poor.
Cutting subsidies that to towards unhealthier foods is a better way of going about it because it doesn't really put the impetus on person who is buying stuff.
Universal nutrition and cooking classes are even better options imo.
Nutrition and cooking classes strike me as regressive and condescending. A big reason people buy junk/fast food is because they don’t have the time or energy to cook while holding multiple jobs and caring for family. How are they going to have time to attend a class?
Some people don’t have kitchens, or cookware. Or, as others said, plenty of areas in the US are food deserts, at least seasonally. And if you do get fresh produce, you have to cook and eat it before it goes bad, so hopefully that doesn’t coincide with a 10-day work week.
I like what you say about cutting subsidies on the production end, though the remaining family farms that grow primarily field corn would not survive without them.
All of these policies would just be treating symptoms. We know what the actual problem is.
Maybe, but at the same time, if somebody is going to a public school why not incorporate it there?
I was a latch key kid, so I had to figure out how to cook on my own, would have been nice to have been allowed to burn things at school instead of on my parents' stove.
I’m not disagreeing that teaching cooking in public school has some merit. It will, however, mostly benefit those that can actually make time for cooking at home, and that have the time to make a meal plan beyond “oh shit I need to eat today before catching the bus to my night job.”
Weellll... think about it from the prospective of trying to incubate the idea that "being able to cook a meal at home" as a part of our culture.
Sure, "today" will see that only certain portions of society will be able to regularly cook meals at home for themselves or their family, but make it a normal thing that people might be inclined to think of as "normal" and maybe people will be more likely to fight for it "tomorrow."
Nutrition and cooking classes would help if they're implemented in a way that coordinates with the elimination of food deserts. Of course living in a food desert you're fucked
With that said myself and a lot of other people I know had parents who both worked and didn't know how to cook and thought pop tarts were a fine breakfast. So it took me a decade of me working in the health field and learning shit online or in cooking classes to learn how to cook for myself. Giving everyone baseline cooking skills should be taught in high school and since everyone over high school age would miss out they should get the chance at it too.
Obviously these are only partial solutions short of a working class revolution. Even after revolution they'd be nice skills to know.