Someone spent money for this study????

**Catty1** · 12-21-2010, 09:14 PM

The headline alone boggles the mind:

Poor are hit hardest by rising food prices: study

NO S***!

Read on if you want....lol
http://calgary.ctv.ca/servlet/an/loc...ub=CalgaryHome

**smokey the elder** · 12-22-2010, 08:25 AM

Well, duh!

**Karen** · 12-22-2010, 08:46 AM

The headline writer misses the point, really, of the piece, which is more about the availability of fresh fruits and veggies and nutrition as much as anything ... lazy copy editor.

**Catty1** · 12-22-2010, 09:16 AM

True, Karen - but so often junk food and starchy stuff is way cheaper than more nutritious food. I wonder if it would be more 'available' if the markup was moved to junk food etc?

**smokey the elder** · 12-22-2010, 09:51 AM

This is why New York wanted to pass a sugar tax; supposedly the monies would go to subsidizing better food for schools, etc. But, no one trusts Albany not to misspend the money.

**Laura's Babies** · 12-22-2010, 12:17 PM

I find the price of fruit has gone through the roof and the quality of it is so much lower that it is almost impossible to eat what they sell.. LOL! I took a bag of FRESH peaches back to wal mart that I had bought the day before, had cut them ALL in half and every one of them were rotten inside while the outside didn't look anywhere near ripe.. I told the man they had been like that all summer and I was tired of paying good money for the privilege of throwing away their garbage!

**DJFyrewolf36** · 12-22-2010, 07:59 PM

I've been living on frozen fruits and veggies for a while. The quality is better and they last so much longer. Frozen fruit makes great smoothies if you have a good blender.
I've noticed that the price of frozen fruit and veggies hasn't gone up nearly as much compared to the fresh stuff.

**kitten645** · 12-22-2010, 09:36 PM

You cannot buy fruit & produce in a big box store. There is no physical way you can get anything fresh thru the production chain in the time it takes for produce to go bad. I only buy fruits and veggies at my local family market. They buy locally so most of the stuff was in the field just the day before. I've bought celery at Safeway and at my local on the same day. Safeways lasted about three days, local market a week! I think Americans have forgotten how to eat. Conveniece wins out over quality food.