Writing Update: Whole Foods is Cheaper…

I have an essay published in The Curator which tries to dispel the myth that Whole Foods means Whole Paycheck. I said in front of my College Writing class a few weeks ago that fast food is not necessarily cheaper than Whole Foods, and the aghast looks I was met with prompted me to do some research and come up with some cold, hard facts. My essay “Whole Foods is Cheaper than Fast Food?” fits right into the ethos of my Ethical Eating series, which looks at how Christians should eat.

An excerpt:

…while I may be able to prove to my class that Whole Foods is cheaper than fast food, the value placed on instant gratification, ready-made food and the on-the-go lifestyle is what keeps more people from visiting farmers markets or buying healthy, sustainable food. Eating is often divorced from cooking, or worse, cooking is considered a privilege that not everyone can afford. So the cooking, for better or worse, gets outsourced.

You can read the rest of my essay here.