The Value Of Healthy Food In America

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I agree with the Pollan, that the price of good food is obstructing low income families to buy it. In America healthy food like organic fruits and vegetables are not affordable for everyone. I strongly believe that if healthy food could cost less people will go for the healthy choice, the proof is in supermarkets like Trader Joe’s and Whole foods, we usually see people from upper class buying expensive organic food. So, when people have more money they are buying more healthy food than when they are low incomes. I’m also convinced that Americans are aware about the awful realty of cheap food like fast food and the dollar store vegetables full of pesticides, but they are not able to change the reality because “to eat well in this country

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