The UnapPEALing Side of Food Everyone loves food, right? Wrong. Not everyone loves food - not people battling eating disorders, not people who have cipophobia (the fear of food), not people who don't have appetites in general. Food is obviously vital to our survival, but for some, it can be an immense inconvenience to eat the recommended three times a day - especially people who are financially unstable. It's no help that organic food costs much, much more than unhealthy food. In BK Loren's Animal, Mineral, Radical: Essays on Wildlife, Family, and Food, she roots out the importance of how eating meals together improves human connection - especially organic meals. Using human connection, we can progress past the superficial side of precedents that we Americans have embedded in …show more content…
The organic tomatoes Loren has in her fruit basket on her kitchen table remind her father of his childhood of picking tomatoes right off the bush and basking in the taste. This gives them a sense of similarity on a deeper level as they discovered something they have in common - the love for the ripeness of organic tomatoes. Eating organically is beneficial in terms of long-term health, but not on your wallet. It's a fact that organic food in the U.S. costs about twice, triple or even quadruple the price of junk food, unhealthy food, potentially damaging food. The richer you are, the healthier you are. The more money you have, the more you can afford to buy organic foods without it affecting your daily, weekly, monthly, yearly spending habits. And then there are the people who can't even bear to think or even look at