I read a recent study from U.S. Department of Agriculture that challenges the myth that unhealthy foods are inexpensive and easy to get while healthy, farm fresh foods are expensive. A blog post at Farm Policy Facts lays out the argument contained in the study:
According to the study, titled “Are Healthy Foods More Expensive,” much of the problem stems from the fact that "previous assumptions about junk food being less expensive were based on a biased analysis that calculated food costs based on the price per calorie."
“Using price per calorie doesn’t tell you how much food you’re going to get or how full you are going to feel,” said Andrea Carlson, scientist at the USDA’s Economic Research Service and an author of the study. Carlson and her team analyzed 4,439 foods in three different ways – price per calories, price per edible gram and price per average portion.
This should make you think twice about what you're buying at the grocery store, and make you question what you're complaining about with food prices.
Take care,
Noah Hultgren
FarmlandMan.com
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