This sort of thing happens on my dash every so often, and it makes me want to shake people. Say you’re in a working family, that someone in your family is lucky enough to have a job at all. If you live in a place that’s close to a grocery store, and if you are fortunate enough to have reliable transportation to get a huge load of groceries home, maybe you can make these better food choices. But that’s only if you have the time, energy, education, and resources to actually cook this food after a long day at work.
Life isn’t as easy as an attractive infographic in the New York Times.
Some day, someone, somewhere will explain to me why these bullshit infographics never take the effort of cooking, the cost of food storage, transportation, or even allergies into account.
I hate Mark Bittman, but he does address all of these concerns in the article (except allergies): “Still, 93 percent of those with limited access to supermarkets do have access to vehicles”; “The real challenge is not ‘I’m too busy to cook.’ In 2010 the average American, regardless of weekly earnings, watched no less than an hour and a half of television per day. The time is there.” I mean, those are bullshit handwaves, but they are addressed. (He puts the blame on the overabundance of fast-food choices available.) I guess the thing that really struck me about the article is how food politics has apparently become indistinguishable from eating-right segments on morning shows. Eat this, not that!
(via abbyjean)
