Why does junk food cost less than health food?

One of the first things I noticed when I started food shopping for myself was how expensive healthy food can be. Even between a conventional item and its organic version, the price gap can be astounding! As I began to look over my receipts and peruse the aisles of my local grocery and health food stores, I noticed an obvious (and disturbing) trend: The more heavily processed and artificial a food, the less expensive it was.

How is it that something that you eat exactly the way it looks when it comes out of the ground or off a tree can cost more than something that went through a day and a half of mechanical digestion by heavy machinery? Doesn't it strike you as a bit odd that our supermarkets are crammed with 99-cent bags of chips, but apples can cost $1.25 or more? Or that a hamburger at a fast-food restaurant might run just under $4 compared to a large salad that can cost twice that?

This got me thinking: What is it about our food system that makes it easier (and more profitable) to produce fake junk foods? I started digging a little deeper and began to uncover the principles and players at the core of our current food system. I'm sad to say it's not a very pretty picture.

While here in America we are very fortunate to have an abundance of things we can eat, these "foods" bear little resemblance to those that would support our health and sustain us for the long term. Collectively, we spend a lot more money on health care than we do on food, but there seems to be an interesting correlation between how much cheap, processed food people eat (proportional to the rest of their diet) and how much money they end up needing to spend for health care later on down the line. It sounds like it would probably just be easier to get more healthy foods on the table to begin with and avoid all the chronic illness.

So what's the holdup? In sum, it has become too hard to be healthy in America largely because it is so expensive to purchase good food. Subsidies are one of the major reasons for this disparity in price between wholesome options and their junk-food counterparts.

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