/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>10288766
the agricultural subsidies industry is about the same size as the entire GDP of Asia, and 99.974% of it goes into subsidizing three things: McChickens, HFCS, and Pink Slime. as a result unless you make six figures you're eating basically like a prisoner in a dystopian sci-fi film, every meal contains more unpronounceable ingredients than the Manhattan Project. wealthy celebrities sometimes try and step in but it's more complicated than a collateralized debt obligation so they get raked over the coals for getting it wrong every time. and due to class consciousness that gets confused for "regional pride" (the south shall rise again, etc), if you're caught eating a fresh vegetable you're basically branded as a traitor for life, thus the poverty trap

you'd have trouble controlling your bowels too if you had our diet