These people don't save money, walk around Walmart and you will see how much garbage these people buy. You could eat organic in proper portion for the same price as buying a overflowing cart full of overpriced shit to feed your fat family. People are eating many times what they actually need.
These people have low IQs or don't give a shit, it has very little to do with affordability. You buy bags of chips, ice cream, frozen pizza, sugar cereal etc. This stuff is not cheap by any stretch of the imagination, not to mention, it's not even food, it's a American pass time. And then they buy mass quantities of it. Instead of a snack these people consume multiple bags of chips, a tub of ice cream, and that is just desert. You could pay for a healthy meal with just that alone. These people sit in their cars eating fast food, not just one meal, but 6-7 hamburgers at a time, this is big $$$, we are talking 50 bucks at a drive through for a in between meal snack! Seriously you have to just look around.
These poor people are just making the wrong choices, they aren't forced to eat crap just because they are poor, this is a excuse. I know people without a pot to piss in that are healthy, it's a lie.
Respect your opinion, and people are definetly uneducated.
But the difference in price when I visited home between say stop and shop, and the local organic supermarket was staggering.
I agree, Americans stuff their faces with garbage that's made of garbage, but good quality food is definitely not catered to the poor areas. Even the food pantries I went to where you can redeem food stamps.
I am with you Telis, I eat really well and am super conscious about what I put in my body. Education, I am a teacher, is so important. Having vending machines selling Cokes in schools is criminal, a McDonalds hamburger can be purchased for less than a dollar.
I think we agree, I don't want to fight, but I do feel the game is stacked against poor people. I went to Whole Foods in Boston, 100 dollars for a bag of beautiful food, stop and shop I could have 5 to 6 bags of steroid ridden crap.
Why do we have billboards for Kolonel cigarettes in black neighborhoods, why are there alcohol stores on every corner. Perhaps our nation could help, could fund education, local farmers, good food... guess I am a dreamer and I know one person here thinks I am a raging communist, which I am not.
I grew up in a working class community in Boston, and it's literarly like a whaling town, the people are so fat, it's really a sickness. I don't think fasting will help them, I think education about nutrition, exercise and self esteem would be a great place to start.
I think we're on the same page, but I employed you to do an experiment and check the prices in the food bodegas or supermarkets in a poor area and then move over to Whole Foods or Trader Joe's and see the difference.
Education seems to be the key.
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