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It's not a problem of food insecurity
It's a problem of nutritious food quality insecurity
I know many of my family members who almost live on mac and cheese in a box and feed their kids sugar bombs for breakfast ... one cousin of mine exclusively fed their kid nothing but chicken nuggets and fries (because thats all the kid wanted to eat) - (then they had to treat the kid at ten years of age for conditions with their gall bladder) ... another distant relative fed their kid tons of junk food and by the time the kid was 18, he had runaway diabetes and he died just recently at 40 years of age of heart disease.
These are the kinds of problems caused by a society where we drive all the wealth to a few dozen people at the expense of making the lives of everyone else as miserable as possible. The wealthy attain their wealth by selling us a cheaper degraded food supply that makes them more money while also making us all unwell. The wealthy also make money on our unhealthy lifestyles by selling us the same drugs that are supposed to help our diabetes, heart disease and weight issues
I don't buy fast food any more because it scares me .... its basically investing in your own early death by eating small amounts of poison over a long period of time.
Yep, a friend had me over once around lunch time. They offered lunch, we opened the cupboards. I kid you not, 3 full cupboards of KD mac and cheese. Me, coming from parents who drilled into me the importance of a varied diet, was astounded that people lived like this.
Same here ... when I was a teen one of my friends in high school offered me to go to his house for lunch one day. I didn't think anything of it and expected a decent meal, even just KD which everyone thought was normal.
He put a piece of plain white bread on a plate, heated a can of gravy and poured a bit of it over the bread ... that was lunch for him ... and a can of coke to go with it.
A generation ago, my family and friends (we're all indigenous), many of the older people died of cancers related to intestine, gastro, bowel ... they were all average weight but many died of these terrible cancers because they all ate a lot of canned and processed foods. Generations now are all overweight and suffering from diabetes and heart disease.
Shit that is terrible.