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Tony Blair says junk food should be made too expensive for the poor to afford through new sugar and salt taxes to tackle obesity (vnexplorer.net)

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

My problem is the whole "poor people eat poorly because they are stupid. I will force them to take the good decision"

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

100%. I did my undergraduate degree in public health, and one thing that I constantly saw about program development for nutrition and food subsidy programs was people thinking that the main issue to an individual getting proper nutrition was not having an education on how to cook or recognize nutritious versus non-nutritious foods. So they wanted to have stupid bullshit like nutrition classes for snap benefits. Where you wouldn't get the benefits unless you took the classes, how fucking shortsighted and missing the entirety of the issue. As if a single parent who's working two jobs is going to have the time to cook or even the time to grocery shop well.