white potatoes making up for 80% of vegetable consumption in the America

[KittyWampus]

22. most/all of the choices I listed can also come as ready mades. And 'convenience'

is mostly a bullshit excuse.

For instance, I can crack open a can of chickpeas and throw it into a very small/cheap food processor with some carrot, onion and celery and then some mayo and have a highly nutritional, plant based meal within seconds.

Using a peeler, you can transform a zucchini into noodles within seconds.

Simply chopping a root veggie and tossing it in the roasting pan takes seconds.

It isn't about convenience. It's about people not caring enough to change the way they eat and their unwillingness to look at their eating habits.

Talking about eating habits is very difficult because so much of it is subconscious. We feel threatened when anyone talks about doing things differently.

Edit- Food choice is one of the most powerful things available to us humans to effect positive changes in our lives. Inertia is what keeps most people from making changes. I do acknowledge the instances in cities where there are food deserts.