bad fatty food cheap
poor people buy cheap easy food
junk food = cheaper food
The cigarette companies used everything they learned about making cigarettes more addictive to make junk food more addictive. Fat children are the fallout.
So basically like you just said all kids in the country are poor?
Poverty isn’t the only cause of obesity. There have been countless marketing campaigns for sugar, and for those of us who are used to “normal” levels notice it right away; As a European who have spent a lot of time in the US, I find US bread basically inedible.
You have been eating the wrong bread.
… are all kids in the country obese? No. Are all obese kids poor? No.
Here’s a curious thing: Kids going hungry cannot be explained by the profit motive alone. The food industry wants to be paid to feed those kids. The food industry benefits from SNAP and other food welfare programs, which amount to transfers of money from taxpayers to the food industry with a side-effect of providing food for poor kids.
So, kids going hungry isn’t an “economics thing”. It is not an economic necessity of mixed-economy capitalism. We can tell because there are other mixed-economy capitalist societies that don’t have anywhere near as many kids in food insecurity.
It’s a “politics thing”.
It’s about ensuring the existence of a deprived underclass, because some people’s ideology demands one.
