Life is horribly, horribly unfair

Peter Duniho wrote:
"Jay Honeck" wrote in message
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We're living in the only society in history that has FAT poor people, for
God's sake. Imagine THAT, just 100 years ago?


IMHO, it's just a new twist on the same old problem of poverty.

Poor people aren't fat because they get enough to eat. They are fat because
food technology has developed to a point where caloric substance is
available dirt cheap, but not in anything of high quality. Poor people eat
what they can afford, which turns out to mostly be junk food.

The fresher the food, the less processed the food, and the fewer additives,
the more it costs. A completely organic diet, arguably the healthiest
approach, is significantly more expensive than spending a few bucks at
McDonald's every meal.

This is an oversimplification, of course. There are other factors in why
poor people tend to be fat, and of course, there are still plenty of wealthy
people who are overweight too. These are all generalizations. But I don't
think the large number of overweight poor people is in any way indicative of
a particular standard of living. If anything, poor people today have worse
nutrition that they did 100 years ago.

That's all interesting but the fact is what we call poor really isn't
poor. Imagine some guy sitting in the dirt of his hut in some African
backwater laughing becaue the Americans declare somebody that makes $20K
per year "poor." We have the richest poor people in the world.