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> My point being that the design of our society right down to the topography of our physical spaces is not set up to encourage walking. There are places where
by jfim 2y ago
> My point being that the design of our society right down to the topography of our physical spaces is not set up to encourage walking.
There are places where it's downright hostile, with areas with no sidewalks or crossings.
> But instead we are so fractured and our governments so inept and conflicted that we subsidize the food that makes us sickest.
There's actually a somewhat sane rationale for the agricultural subsidies. For the longest time in human history, famine was always looming, and the best policy to avoid it was to store excess calories in case of a bad harvest year.
Whether or not that still applies in the US can be debated though.
- coffeebeqn 2y agoYep first time visiting a small Missouri town the cops came to talk to me because I was walking on the side of the road to get to the store
- bobthepanda 2y agoit would make more sense if we subsidized all foods like that, but right now we subsidize a few crops like that. the food subsidy probably makes sense but not to the degree and bluntness of american policy. one of the instigations of nationwide school lunch was actually to provide a baseline level of demand for farmers and make cycles less severe.