Thursday, February 10, 2011

Many Low-income Americans Can't Afford To Eat Healthy Foods

It's interesting (and upsetting) reading people's attitudes and reactions around this. Many of the comments are not coming from a place of understanding, but rather, a place of judgement and prejudice.
One comment says...
"Go to the grocery store and look at the prices on canned veggies. They’re practically giving that stuff away. Poor people live on cigarettes and junk food."
This just isn't the whole story. And if anyone IS "living on cigarettes and junk food," I think it points to flaws in our food production, distribution and access system more than people exercising personal choice.

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