>>Jake,
>>I think you missed my point entirely.
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>Perhaps.
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>>I never said the government should dictate food choices. I said eating healthy is expensive and eating processed food-crap is cheap. A lot of families eat poorly not because they want to, but because it's cheaper to do so.
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>I disagree with this. People eat "crap" because they want to. Be it taste or habit or whatever, when given healthy choices, even at greater convienience and cheaper (or free) they will go out of their way to spend more on "crap".
One of the big issues is that in many poorer neighborhoods, there are no supermarkets, only "corner stores," which tend to be more expensive to start with, and often have little or no selection of fresh produce.
I haven't read all of this (in fact, only skimmed some of it), but it seems to address this issue fairly thoroughly:
http://www.rwjf.org/files/research/foodenvironment.pdfTamar
