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Anyone with half a brain in their head is not going to opt for sodium laden, processed to death canned foods with all sorts of artificial ingredients thrown in to resemble real food.
That is a pretty far reaching statement. I wonder how many things we could point at that you do in your life to declare that you must be stupid?
I like several types of canned meats and fish. Yummy.
I like vienna sausage with eggs too, in all their pinkish gray glory.
Life (and diet) is about balance. I'm not doubting that there are healthier alternatives to canned meat, but when I hear people acting like anyone who consumes it is stupid or doing the equivalent danger-wise of cleaning and filleting your own fugu pufferfish I just roll my eyes, same with those uppity folks who were all aghast that anyone would dare consume ramen noodles in the ramen thread.
Living on ramen or canned meat? Nah, wouldn't recommend. Every once in awhile? Sure! Just like you can not exercise enough, or have a few extra beers when there is a good football game, or not eat the orangutan level of fruits and veggies recommended daily yet still be a relatively healthy person.
Well, I heard that some canned cat food is healthier and has less of additives than human canned food.
Let's take a look at the ingredients in a typical can of cat food: meat by-products, chicken by-product meal, turkey by-product meal, ash, taurine. Sounds familiar?
Actually, the ingredients listed on the organic blends of cat food sound pretty tasty. Newman's Own canned beef formula uses only free-range beef from Uruguay, is 95 percent USDA-certified organic, and is chock-full of vitamins. Pass me a spoon, please!
So, I guess it's OK to satisfy the occasional craving, but you shouldn't make it a staple of your regular diet.
Not canned meat, obviously, but DRIED meat seems to fall prey to this same type of price-gouging. Consider the price tag on a few oz. of beef jerky...It's generally more, costwise, than a few pounds of the same beef.
I really think it's just demand. Things will always be priced at what people will pay for it. If folks weren't willing to buy Spam at the current price, that'd be one thing. Obviously, they are.
I think the original question was, since that's also the case for produce, yet canned produce is nearly always less expensive than fresh, why the discrepancy?
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