One of my least favorite parts about grocery shopping is buying fruit - not because I hate fruit, but because I can't help feeling how epic-ly I'm getting screwed by our food/agricultural system. You don't have to be an economist to know something is totally not right when you can buy a cheeseburger (water, chemical fertilizers, tons of fossil fuels to grow soybeans to feed cattle to produce beef, which is processed with all sorts of other junk to make patties and milk, which is made into cheese, wheat, which is refined and baked into bread, tomatoes picked and processed into ketchup, corn processed into starch powder and reacted with catalysts into high-fructose corn-syrup which is used in the ketchup and probable the bread, and then all the fossil fuels needed to truck all the raw ingredients to their manufacturing locations and then truck all the prepared ingredients to a Mcdonald's to be cooked and serve by an employee) for less than $4.00 but have to pay fucking $9/lb of cherries (pick off tree, wash, truck to supermarket). People obviously have every incentive to not at all be healthy in this country.
Ugh. I just consumed $8 of fruit in like five minutes.
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