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Originally Posted by legion
Do research. LOTS of people died of starvation or malnutrition-related conditions in the U.S. prior to WWII. People were not healthier. They were shorter (a sign of insufficient calorie intake) and died earlier.
And yes, what is not a big price increase to some of you would mean mass starvation at the bottom of the economic scale. The poor in this country are often obese because the cheap foods have high caloric content. Force the agriculture industry to use certain methods to make you feel better about yourself, and those foods will dissapear. All that will be left is relatively low-calorie foods at high prices. It will be a double-whammy for the poor.
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Prior to WWII there was the Great Depression and you still had plenty of poor people sharecropping or subsistence farming. Not healthy options. Try and find a class picture from your parents elementary school, compare that to one of your own - and find one from today. You will be amazed.
Good food is cheaper than it has ever been in human history. That is relative to income or hourly wage or whatever. Folks spend more on cigarettes, lottery and booze than they do on feeding themselves. Allow for welfare and food stamps and how cheap does it need to be??
I feel good about myself and what I eat - and don't want to force an lifestyle on anybody. But man alive - if you are in the same insurance pool or I am paying your Medicaid, please stay within 100lb of your ideal weight.