Comments on: The Farm Bill and Justice http://www.michiganfoodstampchallenge.org/58/the-farm-bill-and-justice/ Could you live of $21 of food a week? Sun, 04 Apr 2010 00:45:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Chuck Warpehoski http://www.michiganfoodstampchallenge.org/58/the-farm-bill-and-justice/comment-page-1/#comment-145 Chuck Warpehoski Sun, 09 Sep 2007 20:12:01 +0000 http://www.michiganfoodstampchallenge.org/58/the-farm-bill-and-justice/#comment-145 I've been reading Barbara Kingsolver's "Animal, Vegetable, Miracle." I know it's dangerous to read about food while on the Challenge, but she makes an interesting point about the high cost of cheap food. Kingsolver's husband, Steven Hopp, has a sidebar about "paying the price of low prices" where he tallies the subsidies and other costs that go into the "cheap" food on the supermarket shelves, and comes up with about $725 per household each year of subsidies ($14 a week). For an extra $14, we could have gotten healthier fare like more fresh veggies and whole grains. Something to think about. I’ve been reading Barbara Kingsolver’s “Animal, Vegetable, Miracle.” I know it’s dangerous to read about food while on the Challenge, but she makes an interesting point about the high cost of cheap food.

Kingsolver’s husband, Steven Hopp, has a sidebar about “paying the price of low prices” where he tallies the subsidies and other costs that go into the “cheap” food on the supermarket shelves, and comes up with about $725 per household each year of subsidies ($14 a week).

For an extra $14, we could have gotten healthier fare like more fresh veggies and whole grains.

Something to think about.

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