06-26-2024, 08:34 AM
(06-26-2024, 08:24 AM)FormerlyBengalRugby Wrote: So $5 dollar meals appear, Joe gets some odd credit, but restaurants close nationally, then it has nothing to do with him...
Fresh food is about making the options available at a similar or better cost than substitutions. That is why seniors and lower income families are given tokens to use at farmers markets, and the markets are moving to areas accessible to them. In addition, programs are out there for carryout's to be able to provide fresh fruits and vegetables to those in need.
I have yet to meet an actual famer who blames half of the excuses you are giving, but that's the boots on the ground, not wild guesses and talking points. I work with multiple farmers markets as well and hear very little of that as well, as their prices have barely moved compared to grocery stores.
There was a study done than showed a direct correlation between the density of fast food restaurants, I believe they used Subway, and obesity rates in the given population. I see cheap fast food as predatory to the population for multiple reasons and would like to see them barred from setting up within a certain distance from schools.
I didn't give anyone credit for the $5.00 menus. Those came about because restaurants raised their prices too much just as other corporate-owned retailers have. They pushed prices to the point that consumers pushed back...just as they intended.
Small farmer markets are a teeny tiny slice of the food supply utilized by an even smaller slice of the food market.
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