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by FellowTraveler 4542 days ago
Corn is subsidized.

It's not that "eating healthy" is "more expensive" necessarily in real terms.

A big factor is the fact that our government uses the threat of violence to extract money from people, and then uses it to pay people to make less healthy food cheaper.

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Can you show a calculation which shows what the effect is on the pricing of healthy v. unhealthy food?