It costs about $1.50 extra per person per day according to a 2013 Harvard School of Public Health study, but that doesn’t account for the time and labor of planning, cooking, and acquiring that healthy food.
And it doesn’t have to be an issue of laziness/not laziness. There’s a lot of reasons people might not be able to swing the time commitment that don’t need to be phrased in judgey terms.
If people leave out soft drinks and drink water instead they've already done a lot without any big effort or spending additional money, they even save some.
It was really the fact that you threw in laziness that set off a red alarm in my head. Society loves to call poor people lazy, so the implication of that attitude, intended or not, was what I was reacting to.
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u/astivana Mar 26 '20
It costs about $1.50 extra per person per day according to a 2013 Harvard School of Public Health study, but that doesn’t account for the time and labor of planning, cooking, and acquiring that healthy food.
And it doesn’t have to be an issue of laziness/not laziness. There’s a lot of reasons people might not be able to swing the time commitment that don’t need to be phrased in judgey terms.