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I have a solution for the obesity epidemic which would be difficult to implement, but might actually work: Address the socioeconomic and political factors that
by whiddershins 13y ago
I have a solution for the obesity epidemic which would be difficult to implement, but might actually work:
Address the socioeconomic and political factors that create so much poverty in our country, and which also depress income in general.
We evolved to eat meat. The ethics of this I won't touch but the economics are only a sticking point if you assume we must have a poverty-stricken underclass in our country. And by poverty stricken underclass I mean anyone who can't afford a couple of lbs of free range organic meat per day.
Do the math. Because most of our pre-civilization ancestors ate like that all the time. Why can't we afford the same?
And don't say overpopulation. Back of the envelope math says the US could easily produce meat at those levels for around 600 million people. And modern societies have negative population growth in the wealthy demographics.
So isn't the problem just the ever increasing number of people who are being dragged in to poverty?