I see it all over the place. You got your 99 cent burgers, tacos, yada yada, and then if you want something that actually won’t clog your arteries like cement, you’ll need to fork over at least another two or three bucks for something that is half as filling as that 99 cent burger. Why can’t fast food restaurants make available healthy options for cheap? Besides a taco bell bean burrito, of course.
Because the ingredients in the unhealthy food are so cheap they’re actually cheaper than the healthy stuff.
In the past fruit & vegetables always used to be cheaper than animal products, but thanks to some modern inhumane intensive farming methods and new methods of carcass processing (for example "mechanically recovered/separated meat" etc) its very cheap to get a bit of animal on your plate these days.
What part of that animal though is another question (its not even technically meat most of the time), but when its all processed into a nice nondescript paste which is then cooked up in a shape with some flavourings & additives etc people don’t seem to really care!
But yeah. I know farming, i know food factory work. I’ve lived/worked in both and i’ve done a lot of research on these matters too, and long story short my advice is: Save your pennies up for the better quality healthier food and avoid such processed foods (chicken nuggets, cheap sausage meat, burgers etc) like the plague! You’ll be doing your health a big favour- its not just gross & fattening a lot of what they put in junk/fast food, there are major concerns over the long term health implications over a lot of the other things they add to food.