In 2011 a new concept in vending machines was born whereby they’d sell hopefully “healthy” foods over the usual junk we see in every day vending machines (equatable in my opinion to the same quality of food one would find in a sewage plant processor or garbage can).
I looked into what these machines will be carrying, fully expecting to be disappointed…and I was.
But not *terribly* so.
The contents need a lot of improvement, but to be fair, the product manufacturers need to improve first. If the vending service has only a certain range to choose from…that of our current “health foods” market…then they too are limited in what they can offer, and of course, the focus is going to be on what actually sells, over what is actually healthy.
I’ll take having one of these machines at my disposal when I’m on the go. There is no competition between what this machine will offer over the mechanical garbage dispenser that we’re all used to.
BUT, we need the food product manufacturers to get more with the program, and we need this desperately.
The vast majority of the products in these vending machines will still have numerous faults…too much unfermented soy products, products with loads of unnecessary additives, too many sugar-dumping juices, sugar-filled yogurts, high sugar “health” bars (are we starting to see a pattern here?) etc.
We’re on the right track, but, as I stress over and over again in my materials, we are a society of addictions. Real addictions that we are either going to actively intervene on and change, and with the help of our food product manufacturers, or, we are going to continue to be a society of indulgence, regardless of the health consequences or how fat we get, and little to nothing will really ever change.
Fresh Healthy Vending…a great concept…we just need to fix the big picture to make it something truly “healthy” and truly beneficial.
Love, Happiness, Health and Peace………………Tim