Obese and malnourished at the same time! A great system indeed! The problems in ensuring access to fresh food in some urban areas (and rural areas too!) is wel

Obese and malnourished at the same time! A great system indeed! The problems in ensuring access to fresh food in some urban areas (and rural areas too!) is well-documented (ok, food access in rural areas is less well-documented). It's much cheaper to buy sugar water than milk or eggs. You have to know that by now, right? My child receives snacks at a public school through an after school program that serves children of various socioeconomic levels. It's utter bottom-of-the-barrel commodity crap food, though "healthier" than Doritos or Takis. In one of the poorer areas of my big US metropolis, the last grocery store is going to close, leaving thousands with no grocery store accessible by public transit. What I find interesting is that I traveled recently to a rural area that produces at ton of big-ag commodity foods, and the food there was s(*& as well. Couldn't find anything fresh, certainly couldn't find anything local, as all they grow are soybeans and corn, acres and acres. No farmer's market, all the store produce shipped in and poor quality. Folks were not slender there, no surprise when work is riding that tractor for 11 hours and food is all from a box. Someone above commented that the real game is inserting a private company between gov't and citizen to filter out the money and deliver crap. It sure feels that way.