Comments on: Biofuels and food prices — and calories too http://odonnell.lohudblogs.com/2008/04/22/biofuels-and-food-prices-and-calories-too/ A repository of random thoughts, odds and ends, and not-quite-fully-formed ideas. Thu, 21 Aug 2008 20:13:08 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=wordpress-mu-1.2.5 By: David V. http://odonnell.lohudblogs.com/2008/04/22/biofuels-and-food-prices-and-calories-too/#comment-4061 David V. Sat, 26 Apr 2008 17:55:26 +0000 http://odonnell.lohudblogs.com/2008/04/22/biofuels-and-food-prices-and-calories-too/#comment-4061 It has occurred to me that maybe an increase in food prices isn't an altogether terrible thing. As a nation, we're becoming fatter and fatter, and maybe the availability of huge quantities of cheap (and unhealthy) food has something to do with that. I know so many people who are very tight on money, but also very overweight (many of them also spend $300 per month on cigarettes, despite their tight budgets). Maybe higher food prices will encourage people to take a closer look at their eating habits. It has occurred to me that maybe an increase in food prices isn’t an altogether terrible thing.

As a nation, we’re becoming fatter and fatter, and maybe the availability of huge quantities of cheap (and unhealthy) food has something to do with that.

I know so many people who are very tight on money, but also very overweight (many of them also spend $300 per month on cigarettes, despite their tight budgets). Maybe higher food prices will encourage people to take a closer look at their eating habits.

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