Food Companies Spend $10 Million to Keep Junk Food Covered by SNAP [View all]

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In South Texas, not far from the Rio Grande, the area known as Little Mexico could easily be mistaken for an impoverished village on the south side of the border. Eli Saslow of the Washington Post describes the slapdash homes, chickens wandering through the streets, a mule munching on trash in the middle of an intersection.

Except, as the immigrant parents of Blanca, a diabetic single mother of two who relies on food stamps, told their daughter about the border, “On one side you’re skinny. On the other you’re fat.”

In his long, impressive story, with its flashy “Snow Fall”–like design, Saslow looks at the problem inherent in modern poverty: Hunger no longer means being skinny for lack of food. Rather, it means subsisting on junk—and suffering from obesity and other diet-related diseases as a result of the new diet of austerity.

http://news.yahoo.com/food-companies-spend-10-million-keep-junk-food-220551522.html

And the teahadists have the temerity to judge and condemn the poor for choosing and eating cheap junk food when in fact the real culprit is the food industry that effectively promotes obesity for the sake of profits.