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Is Our Food Too Cheap?

by Slashfood Editor, Posted Feb 22nd 2011 @ 11:00AM

packaged meat at the grocery storePhoto: Anthony Albright, Flickr

"Family packs" stuffed with pork chops. Jumbo boxes of breakfast cereal. Gallon jugs of orange juice. The aisles of our huge mega-marts and wholesale food retailers are filled with enormous quantities of food. But do we really need it? Michelle Madden at The Huffington Post asks: Is food too cheap? Do we eat too much (in particular low nutrient-density food -- the cheapest of all), and waste too much, because we pay so little and therefore don't value it?

Read the whole essay at The Huffington Post.

Filed Under: Stores & Shopping
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James

2-24-2011 @4:17AM James said... Food too cheap? The people at Huffington Post must have money to burn.
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mick

2-26-2011 @1:11AM mick said... no, not the writers; just arianna

chocolates

5-10-2011 @4:31AM chocolates said... I like this article.It's very nice.
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