Why Governments Need to Help Families Make Fresh Food More Affordable

Remarkably, the survey also found that, although healthy diets cost 15 percent less than current ‘unhealthy’ diets and people from low-income groups still need to spend around a third of their disposable income to eat a healthy diet. The Australian government is considering adding GST to fresh foods like vegetables, but this would be fool hardy as it will make healthy food unaffordable for lower socio-economic families.
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