Triggered snowflake wrote:
many poor people live in “food deserts”, places without good access to fresh produce. Also, fruits and vegetables cost more than cheap frozen and processed foods. Also, many poor people lack sufficient health education and aren’t brought up in environments and cultures where health, wellness, and exercise are a priority or talked about.
obviously we’d love to have more healthy people. I however would blame it more on these factors than on the individuals for having a moral shortcoming for buying unhealthy food, or even blaming these decades-old problems on our current president hahahaha.
Supply meets demand, not the other way around. The food dessert argument was used for Biden’s food stamp expansion (which triggered grocery inflation). They argued that if they gave more money to people they would choose more fresh fruits and vegetables, but the end result was more chips and ding dongs and a jump in obesity.