My family is big on trying to eat healthy but in the US you have to choose between affordable or healthy. Organic foods here are much more expensive from what genetically modified food is. I know it is not fair but it is what we have to deal with because the government controls most of all aspects of food production and they make so much of it they regulate the prices and purposefully make it lower than the healthy foods so they sell more of it and make the profit rather than the local organic farmers. Those who can afford to eat the organic foods benefit from healthier lives and get to experience a high quality food. Money from the organic sell goes to the farmer directly and helps them make more high quality foods to put back into the market. If we all just chipped in and bought a small amount of organic food then I think the farmer could lower the prices and it would help the genetically modified foods market drop and force the government to help back the local farmers.

Best of all can be growing some of your own food.

That is a very good point. It is unfortunate that healthy and locally grown foods have become so expensive. Yet, at the same time we must consider that by continuously giving money to non-local food companies, we are increasing the cost of living overall because of increased climate change which then leads to increased respiratory diseases and decreases productivity among other things. Maybe subsidizing local farms could decrease the cost of healthy foods which then could put money into small businesses and local economies and minimize the negative effects of transportation on the environment.