Quote Originally Posted by GLC1968 View Post
while the poorest people on this planet are starving, the weathiest are getting fatter.
It's more like the poorest are starving, the next poorest are getting obese, and only the relatively wealthy are fit and healthy.

As GLC posted, most of the issue in developed nations has to do with agriculture subsidies, cash cropping, HFCS and the like. A large portion of vegetables at the grocery store has maybe 2-300 calories and costs as much as an entire meal at McD's. So the family gets frozen or canned vegies, or none at all.

Then, many of the poor work two or three jobs just to survive. (And those on food stamps are required to work them off at sub-minimum wage, thanks to the welfare repeal of the 1990s.) They come home from work exhausted, and spending even an hour on food prep (which doesn't sound like much to most of us) is just too much. There's no room in their TIME budget for visiting farmers' markets even when they are in season locally, especially with the limited hours that most markets run. So they buy processed foods. Cheap, quick, deadly calories.