Comment on Australians are choosing foods that contribute to leading causes of disease. Why?

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naevaTheRat@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

Sure but the idea that humans are silly automatons that follow price exclusively dies in first year econ classrooms. Canned beans are extremely cheap and much closer to a food you can sustain yourself on, yet marketing promotes the idea that fish fingers and a side of chips is a more reasonable meal than baked potato and a side of beans with sauce, which doesn’t feel reasonable. Palatability is also not the most significant factor because people also aren’t serving fish fingers and a side of gummy worms despite gummy worms being extremely cheap per calorie and hyper palatable.

We’re a long way from being able to restrict the sale of junk food legislatively but not that far from being able to prevent things like showing hot chips on a dinner plate as something reasonable to serve.

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