First, hope the below doesn't sound mean, I'm just being direct. Direct without being a jerk, I hope. :P In my super strong opinion, everything, everything tha

First, hope the below doesn't sound mean, I'm just being direct. Direct without being a jerk, I hope. :P In my super strong opinion, everything, everything that you write is incorrect, except for maybe very few exceptions. I'm going to use a metaphor here. What you say is incorrect in the sense that if you are in Seattle Washington, and decide to drive to Portland, Oregon, but don't because you say that you have to drive From Seattle to Maine, then down to Florida, over to San Diego, then up to Portland. And it takes 30 days and $5,000 to do that loop. So you say it is too difficult and expensive and time-consuming to travel from Seattle to Portland, Oregon. I mean, if someone doesn't know how to drive directly south from Seattle to Portland for 3 hours because they don't bother looking at a map, and insists that it takes 30 days and $5,000 in travel costs to go from Seattle to Portland, what do you want me to do about it? I can't help everyone that doesn't know how to figure shit out. The reality is that one can buy fresh food and make it last, buy in larger quatities, spend less time cooking than shopping. I know this because I actually do this. This is not "theory." I see people write what you just wrote all the time and I'm convinced that people like you are just repeating what you read other people wrote, and don't think it through or read on how to actually solve those non-existent issues that you just raised incorrectly. You and so many others are taking the long way from Seattle to Portland and think that is the way to do it, and you don't get how you can drive south for 3 hours instead of 30 days. >The claim people just need to make better choices is a non-starter. It is a total starter. I guess one has to have knowledge before one can make the correct choices, though. But if one knows, it is the simplist and easiest thing in the world, but it takes that dreaded action: learning something new and throwing away the old worldview, which is SUPER difficult, I admit. >all else being equal would not choose to be. Not true, completely not true. >But all else is not equal. Yes it is. In first world countries, we have everything. Everything. >If you want people to make different choices, you need to address why they are making their current choices, regardless of what those factors may be. I agree with this, but this is really a situation for psychiatrists and therapists. I have the time or therapy background or ability to talk to people 3 times a week for months at a time to change their behavior and thought patterns.. It takes a long time and a lot of effort for someone to change their own minds, and most will flat out refuse. I'm 100% positive that if I create a house attached to a grocery store that only stocked healthy vegetables and healthy fruits and healthy dairy, and no unhealthy foods, and the nearest place that people could buy junk food is 5 miles away, I'm totally convinced that people would make the long trek to get their Doritos and Twinkies and donuts. 100% convinced.