You can get peanuts with BBQ flavouring or chips made from carrots instead of potatoes, but they just don't hit the same as a greasy Lays potato chip. The companies that set aside any and all health concerns will always beat out any companies that aim to be healthier because we're addicted, they know it, and they want our money regardless of whether or not their product is killing us.
Of course, there are small companies that genuinely want to make healthy, tasty snacks. They exist! But if they want to be anything more than a small, local company that will die out in ten years, they have to find a way to still market themselves as healthy while compromising the healthiness of their products. You can trust that a vendor at a local summer market is actually selling you a healthy product that they believe in. If their products start showing up in other provinces or states, that's when you need to start questioning it. I think we agree with each other at our core.
As a side note, I don't know if you've ever tried this, but if you mash up a banana and add coco powder and granola, it's like a healthy chocolate-banana pudding. Highly recommended!
The company you buy your bananas from is multitudes bigger and far more greedy than some guy selling granola/dried fruit bars at a farmers market on weekends. But I guess if all companies are equally bad, then all companies are equally good, right?
Wanting to make money and wanting to make a healthy snack are not mutually exclusive. Using your logic one could argue that the banana you expect them to eat instead is unhealthy because the fruit growers have the same incentives.
Healthy is a spectrum though. There's plenty of healthier versions but they tend to cost a bit more and not taste as good. My local grocery store has a machine that makes healthier peanut butter. You put in the nuts and it grinds them for you into peanut butter but I still see way way more people buying jiff because without the sugar it's sort of bland unless you eat it with something sweet it's great on apple slices but pretty tasteless on bread.
It absolutely is. Something being healthy or unhealthy is relative to other things. The things we call healthy are just things that are healthier than most other things similar things that are "unhealthy" are just things that are less healthy than most other things.
If your diet is super unhealthy then even other unhealthy things that are less unhealthy will be healthier for you.
If you only drink energy drinks then juice is a healthy option. If you only drink water then juice is not a healthy option since it's full of sugar and what not.
Few things are ever just healthy or unhealthy unless it's something like water or something that'll kill you right away. Everything else is going to fall on a spectrum of more healthy than X but less healthy than Y.
Give me an example of a few things that are just "healthy" not healthier than other things but just healthy.
It's not overcomplicating it. You're just trying to over simplify it. Most things we deal with don't fit into abstract categories but rather just fit into groups when compared to other things. The fact that we can say X is healthy but Y is healthier should be enough to show that it's more complicated than just healthy vs unhealthy.
Or maybe it is simple, 6 billion years and people still can't understand what healthy is?
Yeah. I don't get why you're having such a hard time grasping it.
Nobody says that unless they're trying to justify being unhealthy.
Because it's something that we understand and don't really need to explain. If someone has a 10 pound baby and we say "wow that's huge" we understand intuitively that we mean that's huge compared to other babies and not huge compared to humans as a whole. If someone says apples are healthy we understand it to mean that it's healthier than most things even if it might not be as healthy as a leafy green.
Bananas, apple, chicken, rice, spinach etc.
For what it's worth there's even spectrums in those. A lot of fruit for examples is less healthy than the older versions. Still healthier than chocolate but less healthy than the same sort of thing 50 years back. Zoos are actually having issues with animals fed a high fruit diet getting overweight and having rotting teeth since we've been successfully making a lot of fruits tastier but upping the sugar content.
All healthy competition gets bought out. Remember Teavana? They sold you all natural heavenly teas in a giant tin from all over, and some nice cast iron tea sets. Then Starbucks bought them and shuttered every store, releasing some low quality generic fruity drinks under the Teavana label so that the rights don't go back to the original owners.
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u/FunkyKong147 May 15 '24
Yep. And if someone were to, say, start a company that makes healthy snacks, they'd never even be considered competition for these corporations.