re: #273 lostlakehiker

As to people starving, have you looked around? Obesity is by far the biggest, fattest nutrition problem today, and the poor are just as deeply involved as the middle class.

Food stamps are not currently insufficient to sustain a healthy weight and activity level.

Sorry, but you could not be more wrong about this. It’s entirely possible to be overweight but malnourished, thanks to the high-fructose corn syrup crap being marketed as acceptable food products. Are you aware how expensive healthy food is, especially for those on tight budgets? And that many people in poor neighborhoods are trapped in “food deserts”, where (through lack of private vehicles and public transit) they can’t even get to a grocery store and have access to things like fresh produce? The only food that’s accessible and affordable for them is the absolute worst from a health perspective.

I suggest you play this interactive game on what it’s really like to be poor, before falling for the AGW-denying heritage foundation’s ridiculous blather on the subject.