According to Statistics New Zealand the average household spending on fruit (first column) in 2003/04 was almost $10. Call it $9-50. Only 61 percent more than the Ministry of Health figure.

Of course the MOH has a vested interest in painting alarming pictures about poor nutrition and obesity. Keeps them in work.
The point of the figures is to promote hysteria over obesity thereby softening up the public for more restrictions, regulations and taxes.
ReplyDeleteAnd so the remaining $100 of $142 is spent on?
ReplyDeleteCos if its all vegetables (as opposed to "fruit") then it's not so bad is it?
One would have to comment on the fact that only 1/3 of the attributed household spending is accounted for...
But I would think we must be heavily skewing those figures with around $10-15 pw of an $80 budget going towards fruit...
I found another story today
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I bet those that can't afford an apple a day can 'afford' cigarettes!
IN 2003/4 we werent even spending 90.00 a week at the supermarket.
ReplyDeleteJudging by the comments here and elsewhere, for those statistics to be true, there must be a lot of households that do not buy fruit.
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