What I Ate Today

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My standard breakfast these days is a banana and a everything bagel with plenty of cream cheese and wash it down with OJ

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Junk food is cheap! That’s because the building blocks of junk food — refined grains, sugar, oil — are cheap. But those building blocks are cheap because of the inherent qualities of the plant, not because the government has been subsidizing them for decades.
If you have any doubt about this, check out the estimates that agriculture schools publish of costs to produce an acre of corn versus an acre of broccoli.
According to an estimate from researchers in the University of California system, the cost to produce a 23-pound box of broccoli is about $15.
According to an Iowa State estimate, the cost to produce a 56-pound bushel of corn is about $4.
And the corn is way more food. That bushel makes 1,500 tortillas (6-inch tortillas, 60 calories), each with a quarter-cent’s worth of corn. The box of broccoli makes 70 2-cup servings (roughly 150 grams, 60 calories), each with 21 cents’ worth of broccoli.

Quote: rxwine

Junk food is cheap! That’s because the building blocks of junk food — refined grains, sugar, oil — are cheap. But those building blocks are cheap because of the inherent qualities of the plant, not because the government has been subsidizing them for decades.
If you have any doubt about this, check out the estimates that agriculture schools publish of costs to produce an acre of corn versus an acre of broccoli.
According to an estimate from researchers in the University of California system, the cost to produce a 23-pound box of broccoli is about $15.
According to an Iowa State estimate, the cost to produce a 56-pound bushel of corn is about $4.
And the corn is way more food. That bushel makes 1,500 tortillas (6-inch tortillas, 60 calories), each with a quarter-cent’s worth of corn. The box of broccoli makes 70 2-cup servings (roughly 150 grams, 60 calories), each with 21 cents’ worth of broccoli.