7 daysbad fatty food cheap
poor people buy cheap easy food
junk food = cheaper food
- Don_Dickle@lemmy.worldEnglish7 days
So basically like you just said all kids in the country are poor?
- neidu3@sh.itjust.worksEnglish7 days
Poverty isn’t the only cause of obesity. There have been countless marketing campaigns for sugar, and for those of us who are used to “normal” levels notice it right away; As a European who have spent a lot of time in the US, I find US bread basically inedible.
- ThePunnyMan@lemmy.zipEnglish2 days
They aren’t entirely wrong. Grocery stores often have a bread aisle with loaves that probably fit that description. Many grocery stores also have a bakery department that has bread baked in house. I looked at their nutritional facts online and my local grocery chain says there is no added sugars in their sourdough. I know a couple of local bakeries near me as well. Not all of our bread is wonder bread.
- squaresinger@lemmy.worldEnglish7 days
There is more than one child in America. Some can’t afford healthy food, so they become obese. Some cannot afford food, so they starve.
In fact, the theory that more than one person exists explains quite a lot of apparent contradictions like “People dislike Apple, but people also keep using iPhones”. Well, some people dislike Apple, others keep using iPhones.
- fubo@lemmy.worldEnglish7 days
Here’s a curious thing: Kids going hungry cannot be explained by the profit motive alone. The food industry wants to be paid to feed those kids. The food industry benefits from SNAP and other food welfare programs, which amount to transfers of money from taxpayers to the food industry with a side-effect of providing food for poor kids.
So, kids going hungry isn’t an “economics thing”. It is not an economic necessity of mixed-economy capitalism. We can tell because there are other mixed-economy capitalist societies that don’t have anywhere near as many kids in food insecurity.
It’s a “politics thing”.
It’s about ensuring the existence of a deprived underclass, because some people’s ideology demands one.
- justaman123@lemmy.worldEnglish7 days
It’s our legacy of slavery, by creating such an impoverished underclass with no dignity during chattel slavery it made the lowest rung lower even when slavery was over. We never finished reconstruction on a social level so if you have no money you matter even less.
