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Originally Posted by Gobbiner17
If people cared about themselves more they would eat better food and there would be more demand for fruit and veg instead of processed food. A field that grows vegetables produces 10 times the protein of a field used for beef cattle. Of the plant protein used to raise beef cattle only a tenth of it is used. If this plant protein was used to feed humans there'd be no starvation.
OK, you may argue forever about the choices, variations, economy and whatever, but where there's a will there's a way and if the EU wanted to do something that benefitted the average person, they could do it.
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I think this is a very simplistic way to look at things.
The problem of healthy eating is multifacetted, and needs a variety of approaches to tackle it.
Are you advocating that we all become vegetarain(or demi veg)....this would not suit many people for (again) many reasons.
We are most comfortable with the kind of food that we grew up eating.
Processed food is something that busy mothers rely on purely because it is convenient.
Lots of people grow up not seeing much cooking being done. You can't cook nourishing healthy food if this is not what you saw as you grew up. There are no cookery lessons in schools anymore.
Did you drink carbonated sugary drinks when you were growing up?
I know I didn't....it was milk, water, tea or cocoa.
I am sure that these fizzy drinks that children seem so keen on, have an impact on childhood obesity.
So although solutions may seem simple, I don't think they are(just my opinion).