Healthy food is increasingly getting more expensive. From 1978 to 2008, fish has increased its price by two percent, vegetables by forty-one percent and fruits forty-six percent. Sodas have decreased their prices more than any other item in the last thirty years, “The prices of oranges, to take one extreme example, has more than doubled, relative to everything else. So if in 1978, a bag or oranges cost the same as one big bottle of soda, today that bag costs the same as three big bottles of soda”
Healthy food is increasingly getting more expensive. From 1978 to 2008, fish has increased its price by two percent, vegetables by forty-one percent and fruits forty-six percent. Sodas have decreased their prices more than any other item in the last thirty years, “The prices of oranges, to take one extreme example, has more than doubled, relative to everything else. So if in 1978, a bag or oranges cost the same as one big bottle of soda, today that bag costs the same as three big bottles of soda”