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
All sales based taxes are regressive. Junk food is often intentionally put in poor areas to give people health problems so they stay poor. (Think food deserts). Also people tend to buy it because they worked their ass off that day and want something cheap, fast, and filling.
Give people easy and affordable access to healthy foods and give them less exhausting jobs if you want them to be healthy.
Yeah, this is downstream of bigger issues. In an ideal society, junk food would exist but would be rare, because the amount of exploitation needed to have it all over the place for cheap wouldn't exist. Nobody wants to work at slaughter houses, McD, truck drivers, etc. Let people live good lives, and junk food will solve itself
Besides the accessibility problem, don't companies make junk food addictive on purpose? Wouldn't it be cruel to blame people for the actions of capitalists? They really want poor people malnourished because starving doesn't look cool anymore.
Yeah it's better than starving them because the libs will scream personal responsibility and how it's their fault for not eating healthier.
It's even more insulting because healthy food is cheaper, it's just kept inaccessible on purpose. Fucking libs.