GOOD Transparency: Cost of Food

[Candyapplegurl555]

This video wanted me to make dinner tonight

:)

[Missnoopuka]

Food is still cheap here in Asia :) Except for Japan and Korea .Even in Singapore and Hong Kong is still okay,and it is tasty too !

[rosalinetrianalakusa]

hard to concentrate with the text, too busy watching the food LOL

[katsioylas]

luckily here in europe we eat healthy :D

[AnimeAspieFanatic]

Does my aunt stop by McDonalds to grab some fries for a snack in the middle of her work day? Nope, she stops by the farmers market to buy some fresh fruit on the go :3 I oughta follow suit!

[TheQueenaby]

I really love these videos :D

[AlgisKemezys]

good points.

[sykovich13]

I agree that going vegetarian is a step in the right direction for health, but also agree that people can easily eat only processed vegetarian foods. I was

vegetarian for 14 yrs before going vegan, and found it was very easy to eat junk food. Going vegan for me was the best decision I ever made.For those who have no interest in giving up animal products I respect that, but cook from scratch and buy high quality food. It tastes better and you don't have to go to whole foods either.

[00tad]

they are still selling you stuff... not cool. greenwashing at it's finest!

[AgOrganic]

I want that huge steak...how about a software program that can design your meals based on your own suggestions, link it to the fridge, link it to a special food accounting card to tell you what produce you purchased and the date it expires. Such a program could also suggest ways in which you can use your own kitchen ware to cook with...as not everyone has every essential kitchen tool.

A program which you could add in the tools you have, food you like, make it random or iphone app to choose type

[Hitamaru]

64% of the US is obese ? What it got be a little less 49 give or take

[MarmaladeMonster]

Organic, Fresh, Local Food= Happy, Healthy, Eco-Friendly Life :)

Why would you want to be overweight, unhealthy, high heart disease and stroke-risk, when you can feel great, look great, and eat wonderful just for a few extra dollars?

Organic food is not expensice. Inorganic food is cheap. Both in quality and price -_-

[Iamnicodemusthegreat]

This video is just a marketing ploy by a chain that actually serves up a pretty poor and pretty expensive selection of foods. I used to shop Whole Foods until I simply couldn't stand their prepared foods anymore -- like dust in my mouth. I shop at Wegmans now -- much more environmentally friendly, much more nutritious, but, mostly, much fresher and tastier.

[Roberodification]

If you go vegetarian you avoid nearly all of these problems. I know it sounds hard, but I have been so for 4 years now and I don't miss bacon or fried chicken one bit and they used to be my favorite foods. Now I get excited over vegetarian goat cheese lasagna:D

[11moii]

@Roberodification Ooooh yeeaaaaah, HIGH FIIIVE!

[Vivalarachie]

@Roberodification Going vegetarian doesn't guarantee that your environmental footprint will be any smaller. Pepsi is vegetarian, McDonald's french fries are vegetarian, and so are Taco Bell's bean burritos. I know vegetarians who eat mostly conventional food. GM corn and soy are used in breakfast cereals and vegetarian burgers. You're better off eating pasture-raised meat than simply switching from a pepperoni pizza Hot Pocket to a four cheese one.

Goat cheese lasagna does sound yummy though.

[tomeofenigmas]

In a world where it's get up and go and do this then and this now, who has time to sit there and go through all the preparation you saw in the video? The only times I ever cook now is when I'm at home on the weekends cause that's the only time I have half a day to cook an entire meal. It's like that scenario in Invisible Children...people can't work because they spend the whole entire day cooking a meal and then boom, the day's over and then they have start all over again. No time for work.

[KrakenZero]

@auzziesoceroo

Only in england.

[VivaMexcico]

Get a life...

If you write a comment in a video, make sure that you make one about the right topic.

The video was about food, dont start talking about some religious crap you've got going on...

[piemanization]

@theseeker2k5

jeez, we don't care about religious bull crap, we just want to watch stuff on youtube. go preach in your goddamn church if you care, not here.

[RobloxFreak122]

I love this!!! There are so many moms that dont give a sht About what there kids eat and just go over to Mcdonalds.... No one does it from scratch anymore =/

[george77772moons]

The dilemma for eating healthy is that it takes longer and no one has the slightest patience anymore, despite that the could take the small amount of time necessary to look up simple, healthy recipes that no idiot could possibly screw up. And if you don't have the patience for that, READ THE NUTRITION FACTS. When they say "X # of vitamins and minerals," consider the amount of each. And when the nutrition facts say "X # of calories," consider the serving size and that they can legally round down.

[FixedByDoc]

This film is great 5/5.

[CrazyCheeseMagee]

I love how Lucky Charms and other high sugar cereals tout that they have whole grain because it seems so ridiculous, but alas, many people will still eat that cereal thinking it's healthy because it has some whole grain in it. We seriously need a nationwide food education program not just for kids but for adults too. Also, the government should stop subsidizing corn and soy and subsidize fruits and vegetables so they will be cheaper, so people will buy them as supposed to fast food, etc.

[BlackWolf4830]

Yeah, obesity has increased because of processed foods. Has nothing to do with McDonalds, lack of excercise, and what not

[Paciat]

People spend money on health becouse they have money to spend it on health.

Wasting time in a kitchen wont make your life longer.

[KileSimons]

Americans don't actually have money to spend on unnecessary healthcare, they're 12.4 billion dollars in debt.

[KileSimons]

Oh wait a minute, it's 12.4 TRILLION dollars.

[Paciat]

American goverment has that debt but US citizens have money (at least more than a tipical man from china).

Theres no healthcare for govements.

[RiskGraffitiTV]

wtf

[vloweer]

beautifully made 5/5

[GodlessLiberals]

In partnership with Whole Foods Market? They just lost me there.

The CEO of Whole Foods, Mackey, came out as a global warming denier in the New Yorker a week or so ago.

My Whole Foods boycott is in full swing.

[MysteriousMose]

what typeface are those % numbers written in? its really beautiful!

[jotbath]

healthy food doesn't taste as good and being happy makes you live longer

[suaveyobi]

no duh

[ghuegel]

The way I see it: food industrialization led to cheap food, and the ability to create low-nutrition, fast/convenient, tasty food. So Americans went whole-hog with it and so we end suffer from high obesity and obesity-related diseases. I see us slowly transitioning back to more healthy foods, but keeping most of the cost savings and some of the time savings. We can have most of the best of both worlds.

The optimistic thinks this is the best of all possible worlds, the pessimist knows it is.

[RgSchmitt]

You are what you eat

[impalapez]

@kingssman2...you really missed the whole point of this brilliant video.....True Costs Involved....Good wholesome food is comparably priced when you factor in nutritional value, and lack of government subsidies like corn and soy...Plus, americans for some reason don't see the correlation between their health, and their diet

[kingssman2]

The reason why Americans want to spend 10% of their income on food is because they don't want to feel like they are eating their money. Plus healthy foods are expensive! healthy meats are expensive! can't ask a poor person to buy gourmet style food.

[MinimoviesInc]

@nathanjamesbaker Does it? In what way?

[MattyPeoples]

Cooking meals from scratch can increase the nutritional content of a persons meals, however that is easier said than done. Many Americans don't have the necessary skills to cook a nutritious, well balanced meal for themselves, they need more education in the kitchen!

Also, when do Americans have time to cook themselves a decent meal? The average American works 46 hrs p/wk - the max. limit in France is 35 hrs p/wk! Americans must be allowed a better work/life balance if they wish to be healthy.

[l1nuxun1l]

The problem isnt what we are eating. Its the fact that we do not exercise ANYWHERE near how much we did back in those days.

[MinimoviesInc]

@l1nuxun1l That is one of the reasons, but not the only one. Food plays just the same part as lack of exercise.

[Nutzername36]

go vegan ;)

[strek0655]

@Nutzername36 If you want to be anemic and have nutritional deficiencies, then yeah.

[Nutzername36]

i see you don´t have a clue!

go vegan ;)

[FaBFaB66]

@Nutzername36

Hurray brother

vegans rule =D

[Nutzername36]

@fabfab66

thx

but it´s a fakt :)

[strek0655]

@Nutzername36 I'm a med student having just taken finals in Biochemistry and Nutrition and dietetics. So yeah i DO have a clue. So good luck with your pernicious anemia and learning disabilities together with mental problems.... Ive seen such patients so trust me i know!

[Nutzername36]

@strek0655

i don´t know what they teaching you, but these patients surely diden´t got ill because they were on a vegan diet. maybe because they eat wrong but that are two different thinks. and i don´t have to trust you but i trust the tens of thousands > that doing quiet well on a vegan diet.

so still -> go vegan ;)

[strek0655]

Now let me tell you. Vitamin b12 are vital for the synthesis of DNA in the s phase of a cells cycle. now the cells with the highest turnover rate in our body are the blood cells. If the blood cells cant get enough vit. B12 to synthesise their dna they will become large (over 7.8 micrometer) which is called macrocytic. The fact that they become large make them fragile causing that they break faster than they are produced causing what is known as pernicious anemia. B12 is found in animal products!

[Nutzername36]

you forgot that a lack of B12 cause damage on the nervous system ;). B12 is only producted by microorganism and as so it can be found on the surface of unwashed (organic->cause of toxics) fruits and in high amound in soil e.g.

you can also find it in cornflaks, fruit juice, energy drink etc. (added).

people form a clan in india who where on a vegan diet for min. several generations got a lack of B12 as they move to the UK cause of washed food.

[strek0655]

I mentioned neural problems in one of my earlier posts. And dont think im impressed with you trying to keep the discussion gong by looking up on wikipedia, as the lack of intrinsic factor sectreted by the parietal cells are almost always in relation to the HCl secretion making the pepsinogen unable to activate and the proteins unable to be digested, as that would surely be noticed by the patient when they defecate. As far as i know vegans dont eat anything derived from animals, post 1 of 2

[strek0655]

Post 2 of 2. so a "true" vegan wouldnt eat anything derived from animals ergo no added b12... I forgot to mention that the amount of b12 in the liver stored by the hepatocytes is normally enough to supply the person for around 1000 days, making it unlikely for the patient to completely ignore its different feces for so long. But the epidemiological side of pernicious anemia is not interesting in this case, because the diet DO in certain cases cause anemia. Making vegan diets defeat it purpose..

[Nutzername36]

at home in india they didn´t wash the food.

you can easily cover you demand on B12 unless you care a bit of it. (oh i forgot sojamilk)

a lack of B12 often caused by a disfunction of the Intrinsic-Factor. then no diet can cover the demand of B12 and you need medical help. a lack of B12 only because of vegan diet is extremly unusual.

as long as you care of it you will be fine and today there is so much B12 added to food you almost have to know what to do to get a lack ;)

[roidroid]

In relation to "nutritional value" the video rates HIGH amounts of vitamins/minerals - yet LOW amounts of calories - as favourable.

Because the word "value" is used - from an engineering point of view it sounds strange for FEWER calories to be of HIGHER value.

We have evolved to highly value ALL calories, as a fuel, and it was scarce. It is only relatively recently that we find ourselves able to overindulge

Rather than buying low calorie foods, dilute your calories by eating more fibre

[roidroid]

the French Paradox

[idd405]

Mmmmmm

[fenix611]

lol, overwight americans and more and more poorer africans...you can see that this is not realy progress, the poorer get poorer and the rich get richer, its realy madness i you think about it. did you know, 1% of human population owns 40% of the worlds resources.

[aznkilla10]

socialism ftw

[MinimoviesInc]

@fenix611 anarchism ftw!

[impalapez]

even worse, look into the history of the Rothschilds

[ghuegel]

Wealth is not a zero sum game. High wealth in some nations doesn't lead to poverty in other nations... in fact, the opposite is generally true. Today's poor nations are that way mostly for historic or modern political reasons.

Except for war (e.g., Afghanistan), and wealthy countries propping up dictators, one country's wealth is a boon to other countries, so long as free trade is allowed.

[fenix611]

the trade system is bent towards the rich countries, how they buy primary goods and sell the manufactured goods is all decided by price, debt and profit, this is all made exactly how they want it. when a poor country asks for aid, to buy medicine and resources, they get stuck with debt they are unable to pay and each year it grows more and more, chaining them to an eternal monetary leash.Its the higher-ups who put the rules in capitalist monetarism.

[RobinlvGamer]

And what is this % compared to other lands and the healthcare?

Personaly, this makes this video de-knowledgeable except JUST for americans. Would be good to know the other statistics to compare with.

[crock703]

Well, you can get the gist w/o knowing other countries' statistics.

The U.S. has done food industrialization on a larger scale than anyone else, thus we have the highest overweight figures and the lower nutritional content per meal. Point remains the same -- cook it yourself for a healthier meal.

[harukih]

mmmmm, steak.

Great video :D

[lunei66]

Did they have to put that huge gross steak there? It's so disgusting...

[KurzLuppii]

@lunei66

Dont know about you, but it looked delicious.

(Imagining it on a Grill)

[redbeast2]

Correlation does not equal causation!

The maker(s) of this video need(s) to be reminded of this basic scientific principle.

[KurzLuppii]

@redbeast2

Dont forget about the Price controls Foreign Nations put on their care.

BTW Price Controls is NOT a good thing.

It kills off research for new medicines.

[redbeast2]

I don't understand what your reply has to do with my comment...

I am not talking about price controls, I'm talking about the video's claim that more home-made foods correlate with better health.

[DayanNataly]

I think that they mean that because people are eating more processed foods, more people are overweight. When you are overweight you are at risk to more health problems like heart disease or diabetes (I'm not sure about that one). Therefore your spending more time at the doctors?

[KurzLuppii]

Well if you watch 1:13 to 1:17

Thats what I thought you were thinking about.

I was supporting your argument.

[Vitaminous]

There little correlation with GDP spending on healthcare and nutrition. Admittedly however, malnutrition from prepared foods could take a toll on your health. But it's not just malnutrition, it's lack of physical activity.

The real problem with healthcare is how it is acquired, and I'm not throwing flowers to socialized systems here, not at all, I mean that you never see the price of what you buy. Not only this, but never ending mandates are driving prices up along with lack of national compet-

[XBLPanzerr]

Americans spend more on healthcare because its not socialised

[Vitaminous]

Dumbest assessment of the year.

[kenapa1234]

Great video, rarely i see videos like these showing unexaggerated figures. Perhaps it could be but at least it sounds reasonable. They should try to make it in a global perspective besides just in the U.S. Overall, it's good. Thanks

[Daritto7117]

Good message, but 10% really? I think its higher

This should be common sense, but in todays bust world people need to simplify their lives. Make time for the good things and weed out the bad ones, it's not a sacrifice if you see the bigger picture = BETTER HEALTH, LONGER LIFE,

[markpemble]

Poor people spend very little on food because of the food stamp program.

Wealthy people probably spend less than 1%.

If you cancel out the food stamp users and the wealthy, the average american still probably spends 22% on food today.

[crock703]

Yeah, that's probably true. It'd be an interesting figure to really find out.

The income gap is so high that a lot of people probably spend around 1% -- even if that's just the upper middle class who make $150k a year, grocery shop like everyone, and don't do any expensive eating out.

I wonder how that food cost figure compares to to past health care and housing costs. It may just seem low b/c we spend so much on housing and HC. The question is, what an hour of your labor used to buy vs today.

[TeaAndCookiesAndCake]

People should realize this=)

great video

[BlancType6]

im hungry

[KrakenZero]

heh 10% my butt, I don't make that much so food takes up 30% or more of my check.

[rockhills]

if you shop at whole foods there goes your whole paycheck.

[benjoondrums]

@rockhills not true.... There is a simple way to buy exactly what you need to eat from health food stores and still stay with your budget. You can easily make meals which per serving are less than 1$ each. The exact same as any dollar meal at McDonalds just with way more nutrition (it'll actually keep you full longer saving you from all the snacking later... saving you money)

check out this awesome website: cheaphealthygood.blogspot. com

[joejoe4812]

@rockhills you sheepish ignorant americans never get it. do you?

[rockhills]

@joejoe4812 It would help if you would elaborate ye of all knoweth.

[VhUgGz]

@rockhills If you're poor, then yes, there goes your whole paycheck.

[TheReasonWhyGuy]

@rockhills yep

[dimsho]

neat