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Fast food serves a lot of purposes though. It's not healthy, but it feeds people, it's cheap and it lets you spend your time on something else. Facebook really

• hbarka 9y ago
  And think of the healthcare consequences too
• chrisseaton 9y ago
  I'm not sure I'd agree that fast food is the same thing as junk food. There's nothing inherently unhealthy about food that has just been prepared quickly. Junk food doesn't feed you correctly, that's the point.
• mtgx 9y ago
  > It's not healthy, but it feeds people, it's cheap and it lets you spend your time on something else. Yes, Facebook is the "bread and circus" of the modern world. Plus, it's a dream come true for intelligence agencies, as people build their own dossiers and then make them public (or keep them within Facebook, which is pretty much the same to the intelligence agencies).
• Karrot_Kream 9y ago
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_desert https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_desert
  • opportune 9y ago
    One thing conspicuously missing from that article is why there are food deserts to begin with. People love to decry food deserts but nothing will actually be done to solve them on a large scale without addressing the causes as to why they arise. In my town the cause of the food deserts was the theft rates. There used to be groceries in the poor parts of town... It simply wasn't economical to keep them open because they couldn't make money doing so. I'm not blaming poor people for stealing per se (it's at least partly a symptom of poverty) but people make food deserts out to be some grand conspiracy on behalf of food companies when it's really caused by more emergent phenomena that are very hard to fix