Oh I get the ref, I know who the real Machine Gun Kelly was. I’m just saying that coming up with that as a stage name is fucking stoopid.

Being able to eat healthy is a luxury. Frozen or canned vegetables are OK, but if you’re used to eating fried foods, and other unhealthy stuff, you’re going to gag at the bitterness and texture. I never knew I was a veggie lover, until I started eating the fresh stuff. I grew up eating canned corn and green beans,…

The only reason I generally went into Whole Foods was for a scoop of their baked mac and cheese and whatever chicken thighs they were repurposing from day-old rotisserie chickens in an international sauce of the day on the hot bar. It was ooey and gooey and oily and delicious and it made me forget for a moment that…

I have noticed (apart and distinct from the issues created by poverty, food deserts, lack of walkable communities and public transport, etc, which are definitely huge problems!) that one issue is probably the American palate itself, which is very high in sugar compared to most places in the world.

Enjoy girlfriend!

I’m in Portland, and it’s raining now. It was kind of freaky there for awhile!
And now I’m just proud to be living my punk rock teen dream of living in an anarchist jurisdiction! 

it’s never a surprise to me that these guys *think* these things. it does however shock me that PR people let him say these things in a national newspaper.

We don’t have one but I absolutely get you. No. The packaging is designed by people with expensive college degrees. The marketing is aggressive, the BRANDING is the secret - as with so many things we consume in America. My relatives ONLY shop at the most expensive places in town. They are always in some kind of debt,…

The amount of fat-shaming, food-shaming, and shaming of poor folks for being poor in this thread is just gross. I’m terribly disappointed in all of you concern trolling here under the guise of “health.” Wellness culture, a thing to which this Libertarian a-hole clearly subscribes is toxic. Is it good to eat things…

Stress really is the number one killer in America. Some of us calm ourselves with food, others alcohol or drugs, some of us run ourselves to emaciation (for fear of the above two + the ‘shame’ of obesity) and destroy our bodies that way. I would argue that the last one is going to be associated with the most unhappy…

“Whole Foods has opened up stores in inner cities. We’ve opened up stores in poor areas. And we see the choices. It’s less about access and more about people making poor choices, mostly due to ignorance,”

The sheer stress and misery of so many American lives is a HUGE reason for the obesity epidemic. The need for some comfort is a big factor in people’s food choices, and the systemic failures of our society seriously drive that.

I have made a similarly risky decision while drunk - ignored an “under construction, do not enter” barricade around a NYC subway escalator (because it was a very tall escalator that looked fine from where I was standing) - and regretted it halfway up when all the stairs disappeared and I had to gingerly climb up the…

The interview is a pretty good illustration of a man who can only see the world through his own lens.

Maybe if we made fruit & vegetables (aka “specialty crops”) eligible for the Farm Bill so those crops could be subsidized the same way that us taxpayers fund $13.9B of corn and soy every year, THEN the market would be the level playing field it would need to be for market demand to tilt away from highly processed…

“Whole Foods has opened up stores in inner cities. We’ve opened up stores in poor areas. And we see the choices. It’s less about access and more about people making poor choices, mostly due to ignorance.”

Am I the only one who doesn’t understand the appeal of Whole Foods? Their prepared food all tastes the same to me, and it’s all... not good. It goes without saying they are way overpriced, and they don’t even have a deli!

I mean, he’s right.

And if people want different foods, the market will provide it.

During my five month furlough this year I had a lot of time to think about the cost of food and it’s nutritional value. I’m not counting pennies, but I knew I had to be more conscious of what I purposed and how many meals I could get out of it.