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La esquina de Latinoamérica en la frontera de Tijuana-San Diego 

blue-voids:

Valerie Bettis - The Desperate Heart, 1944

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canisfamiliaris:

Is Junk Food Really Cheaper?

The answer is NO.

The “fact” that junk food is cheaper than real food has become a reflexive part of how we explain why so many Americans are overweight, particularly those with lower incomes. I frequently read confident statements like, “when a bag of chips is cheaper than a head of broccoli …” or “it’s more affordable to feed a family of four at McDonald’s than to cook a healthy meal for them at home.”

(via sunfoundation)

this bullshit fills me with a very specific kind of rage. so, TIME TO DEBUNK!

1. that meal from mcdonalds takes virtually no time to acquire AND is available almost anywhere.
2. the second meal? that “salad” is lettuce … with nothing else, not even dressing unless its just olive oil or some milk i guess? gross.
3. also thats the price of each serving, not an entire loaf of bread, a bottle of olive oil, etc. that stuff adds up which means you have to have a lot of money at one time to buy it all.
4. that meal probably took an hour and a half to make, which is a long fucking time when you work multiple jobs or are caring for a lot of people or dont have help! seriously, if you are a single parent of three who works, is spending an hour and a half every night preparing a meal a likely option?
5. same with beans and rice! also, you know whats a fucking bummer? eating beans and rice every night because you are poor. ask any person who has done it and they will tell you (you can start with me).
6. there is a “nutrition” argument here that lacks a follow up: poor people are more likely to be doing physical labor and need more than 571 calories per meal.
7. you know who is less likely to know how to bake or prepare a chicken? people without access to the internet, or libraries, or who werent taught how to by their parents because their parents worked all the time. access to healthy foods is a classist issue and classism is cyclical, you fucking morons.
8. seriously, these sorts of infographics make me want to fucking flip tables. do you know why people don’t eat more fresh fruits and vegetables? because fresh fruits and vegetables are expensive, because they take a long time to prepare, because they dont live near a grocery store that has a decent produce section, because they dont have reliable transportation to get groceries to and from the grocery store, because they dont have the energy to plan all of the shit that is involved in making healthy, intentional, filling, balanced meals. basically: poor people get fucked, and then we get BLAMED for being lazy.
9. eating “healthy”, aka access to fresh fruits and vegetables, is a privilege, first, foremost, always. so fuck you new york times and your ignorant goddamn infographic.
10. there are SYSTEMATIC REASONS that we do not have equal access to fresh fruits and vegetables. they are very REAL problems. besides, you know, systematic poverty in america, the total mis-distribution of farm subsidies is a perfect place to start. read about that, then either get bent or start working on the actual problem.

Okay there are many things I find wrong about this argument first of all “the second meal? that “salad” is lettuce … with nothing else, not even dressing unless its just olive oil or some milk i guess? gross.”

Beggars can’t be choosers you know. 

Also the pinto beans and rice, I really don’t think you’re the authority on that okay. You know why? BECAUSE I GREW UP IN GUADALAJARA MEXICO ON FUCKING BEANS, RICE, AND MILK ALL DAY ERRYDAY.

“same with beans and rice! also, you know whats a fucking bummer? eating beans and rice every night because you are poor. ask any person who has done it and they will tell you (you can start with me).”

that’s bullshit, and I’ll tell you why. You had to ‘do’ it, I lived it. It was a ‘bummer’ for any of us! YOU DON’T KNOW WHAT YOU’RE MISSING WHEN YOU NEVER HAD IT.

I live in the USA as an adult now, and boy do I still LOVE me some PINTO BEANS AND RICE.

We had 15 people living in a 2 story 2 bedroom ‘house’ made of pure concrete. Oh carpet? WHATS THAT? 

Yeah no, and we were poor as dirt, really fucking poor. Like scrubbed our clothes in the river poor. 

“because fresh fruits and vegetables are expensive” 

No they aren’t, unless you’re buying some exotic organic shit. THEY AREN’T. 

My family bought POUNDS of potatoes for like 5 pesos (50 cents) a pound.

“if you are a single parent of three who works, is spending an hour and a half every night preparing a meal a likely option?”

DON’T EVEN GET ME STARTED! My mom was a single mom and she worked sooooo fucking much, and you know what she did? SHE CAME HOME AND FUCKING COOKED CAUSE THATS WHAT SHE HAD TO DO. To top it off! I was living in the USA when I was with my mom!

Go eat your heart out, because everything you’re saying is bullshit.

Reliable transportation my ASS, when i was GROWING UP AND LIVING IN MEXICO we didn’t own a goddamn car!

we WALKED our asses to the city that was miles away, and you know who came along? MY GRANDMA. MY GRANDMA WALKED HER BUTT ALONG WITH US. 

We came home with food that cost us roughly 200 pesos (20 bucks) and we were set for days. Because we got BEANS and RICE, MOTHERFUCKER.

don’t open your mouth, you don’t know SHIT about growing up and being poor. 

Oh and by the way.

WE COULDN’T AFFORD MCDONALDS.

But in countries like Mexico the food is cheaper because the FUCKING CURRENCY ISN’T THE FUCKING SAME. Like you can’t just say $20 of groceries is cheap in Mexico because the economy is in pesos. Yes, it’s cheap when you convert it into American dollars but its not actually cheap to their life style. McDonalds there isn’t the same as here either. Over there it’s “special” and a “treat.” Here it’s just shit you buy because you have no other option. And how fucking dare you play “I had it harder” because WE ARE OPPRESSED TOO. I’m poor as shit. My mom is on food stamps. She works part time over an hour away and has to pay a lot to get to work. We live in NYC where the cost of living is really fucking high. We had to buy old ass fruits and vegetables from our local store. The broccoli begins to flower, the apples are browning, and the peaches are mushy. There is barely any access to healthy food here. There are no community gardens near us so it’s all expensive. Nothing is locally grown unlike in Mexico. Yeah you grew up in bad conditions but I am too. Sorry the world has been bad to you but it’s not fair to guilt someone who is not as poor as you. Poor is poor.

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afterthenight:

Nan Goldin, Self-portrait in blue bathroom, London 1980

if-you-leave:

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                                              Anne Hathaway at Met Ball 2013!

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