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This Christmas there were pictures on the TV of people,
mostly children, from Darfur . They were malnourished – they looked like
skeletons with a skin covering; their bones stuck out, their limbs were ricketed. These were to poor – they were the poor of the
country.
In the book The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga - he writes about
rural India
In the United
States
Isn’t that ironic?
That is why Santorum wants to end the Food Stamp program - to combat obesity. Instead of fat poor kids in the inner-city; We can have them looking like those kids in Somalia with sunken eyeballs and their ribs hanging out! Why,
ReplyDeletethey could take that money we are wasting on nutrition programs and buy every millionaire in America a new Bentley...
Sarge
The contradictions between us and the rest of the World are probably too numerous to categorize or count.
ReplyDeletebecause all the cheap inexpensive food is all carbs and starch..if your rich you can eat salmon, lean meat and as many fresh veggies as you'd like.
ReplyDeletewhere poor america eats macaroni, rice, cheese, bread and processed lunch meat.
As a poor American, I've found I can eat well for two weeks and then not eat for the other two weeks of the month. And so I am neither thin nor fat nor healthy.
ReplyDeleteWhat YellowDog Granny and MRMacrum said.
ReplyDeleteas a person who definitely is not rich by any means, in fact, realistically, might fall into what is considered poverty stats...I can attest that it is not income, it is the social programming and the degradation of the the society on a whole which promotes the particularly American version of obesity. It's true that if you are poor and live in an environment without real food, you will get fat, the wheat products derived from the varieties of grain commercially grown and sold in America alone are enough to cause physical problems that promote obesity.
ReplyDeleteBut it is more than that. It is the hunger of the soul. Damaged mal nourished psyches that substitute twinkies for reality. I have relatives in Ohio who are all fighting serious obesity problems. In a family that previously has had no history of diabetes, in this small demographic, it should be considered plague.
I am poor, but I have some land and I can fill the freezer from my garden and I know how to preserve food. I also live in a rural world full of people as poor as I am, but there is so much good food if you take time to learn how to cook. Thats the problem too, people just don't have the time or patience to prepare good food.
If America had a better education system, and real food distribution system....in other words if people in poor neighbor hoods had access to vegetables and a life style that allowed them to believe they had time to cook...that would go a long way. But it is more of a moral and spiritual sickness, a malady of the soul..........