CVS Workers Must Report How Much They Weigh Or Pay $600 Fine

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102. Good points on food and class.

Its all well and good to talk about food choices -- and people should make better food choices. But "good" or "clean" food is now a class issue due to its cost (Thank you and fuck you Whole Foods). Where I live in Chicago, there are vast grocery store deserts. Just go around the United Center anytime and you'll see that the whole residential area is packed with McDonalds and KFC and booze stores. And if the people living there do want to get to the grocrery store they have to drive miles to another neighborhood and then get hassled by security because "they don't belong" Then, if they overcome the harassement, they have to contend with expensive prices because the neighborhoods they have to shop in have a significantly higher standard of living.

So even if a lot of people want to make good food choices (or even know to, I haven't touched on the education issue), getting to the "good" food is like climbing a mountain.

At the end of it all, part of the blame lies on the individual, but the other parts lie on Big Food and Big Pharma as well as our culture. We need to fix that too. We need to quit thinking McDonalds is our friend -- they aren't, not even a little bit.