Our food system prioritizes profits over health hard. You usually have pay more to eat healthy. It funnels unhealthy food to the lower classes. Poverty and obesity are often correlated here - which is weird.
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Dasus@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
Holy fuck Americans, honestly.
Your obesity issue is out of hand.
So is your fascism, but geowd dawm those are some chunky soldiers.
When I was in the army these boys would’ve prolly not been able to keep up and would’ve been sent home to eat Ozempic and diet for a year or two before returning to the brigade.
Hell, I’m a supply NCO, trained as a quartermaster as well and I don’t think we’d have sizes big enough, lol.
RandomlyGeneratedName@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
luciferofastora@feddit.org 10 hours ago
Well, there’s a free bonus in the fact that unhealthy people also require more healthcare. Probably not intended, but you’d have hard time convincing me that it’s an unwelcome side effect.
RandomlyGeneratedName@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
The same conglomerates and private equities own everything so it would not surprise me if it was intended.
Dasus@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
It’s not weird at all.
A perfectly natural consequence of laissez-faire capitalism leading what should and shouldn’t be regulated.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_desert
I find it incredibly weird to imagine that some people think it normal that you can’t walk to a grocery store with fresh vegetables etc.
Never had Doritos or Funyons or Twinkies in my life. I tried Oreos once, but I’m more used to the equivalent we have here (copied and slightly altered by some decades and decades ago.)
I don’t think there’s anything I prefer as the American version. Perhaps like if you use the word to encompass all American countries, maybe, ~authentic Mexican is pretty nice and usually gluten free.
It’s a lot about food deserts and infra and regulation, but also using HFCS instead of some other sugars does have an effect.
Even though we got very gluttonous people as well, somehow ours aren’t just ever as Michelin Man shaped. It’s more like a huuuuge belly with skinny legs and arms and head. Well some diabetic people do tend to swell up quite a bit but…
thatKamGuy@sh.itjust.works 18 hours ago
Food deserts are such a weird concept to me; Australia has about the same land-size as the continental US and only ~8% of the population. Yet even for all their perceived faults, our two biggest supermarket chains are able to deliver fresh produce to pretty much all but the most remote communities.
Meanwhile, sections of major US cities are somehow lacking access to fresh produce?! 🤯
Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 6 minutes ago
So there’s two types of food deserts: rural and urban
Rural food deserts are typically some small dying town populated by overworked commuters (who primarily work in an agriculture or agriculture supporting businesses, since that’s what exists near these towns) and tax- and price-sensitive retirees. It’s a small town of less than a thousand people and everyone just drives to the Walmart the next town over because that’s what they have for options now.
Urban food deserts are typically in poorer sections of the city (areas whose poverty was reinforced by historical practices of redlining and broken window policing for example) so any businesses that do sell food tend to be dollar stores which due to their margins can’t afford non-shelf stable food, or gas station convenience stores which both can’t afford non-shelf stable food and might not have the space to dedicate to some fresh produce. Grocery store chains will generally aim for locations with some wealthier clients since they’ll spend more per trip, and they fear that opening locations in less affluent areas will lead to more crime.
Some cities have responded to food deserts by directly subsidizing the opening of a grocery store, or subsidizing the availability of fresh fruit and vegetables at existing stores, but that requires a level of civic engagement that not all cities are willing to put in, and more affluent citizens may turn their noses up at such neighborhoods and just want them to decay out of existence (which isn’t going to work) or worse they try it and find that most of the people who could be supporting a small local grocery store still go to the big grocery store/Walmart that they have to drive to instead, so the local grocery store goes out of business despite the subsidy
Jerb322@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
Because the ones that “have”, don’t care about the ones that “don’t have”.
And the ones that do care ,can’t help everyone.
Aljernon@lemmy.today 9 hours ago
Weird as in historically obesity and wealth went hand in hand and not it’s flipped.
Dasus@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
But armies wouldn’t be made of rich people.
Also also, it’s either diabetes or the HFCS, but Americans have a very distinct, plump look all around. Whereas here it’s often just a huge belly people have and maybe an extra chin or something.
But not all all around Michelin man.
My dad worked at a theme parn in Finland, driving the guests around in a sort of road-train. And he wasn’t a small man by no means, every gluttonous and always thirsty. Died at 70 that’s how healthy he was.
Anyways, he was shocked and told me that he’d never seen “people shaped like that”.
No offense.
Well some probably.
Asidonhopo@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
As an American, round corn chips are the best, glad you’re enjoying them
Dasus@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
I prefer like a bent triangle, then you grab it by the tip and then put as much salsa on it as possible. The chip to salsa ratio is off the charts.
Although these rounds ones have a bit more chip to salsa, their structural integrity is better and didn’t break as triangles often do.
Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
Gives new meaning to the roll out don’t it
n0respect@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
Like they say: “These colors don’t run”
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
They don’t even lightly jog.
Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
Greasy fat spots though
TomArrr@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
Dasus@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
balance8873@lemmy.myserv.one 22 hours ago
They’re the national guard, their job is to help old people in hurricanes.
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 21 hours ago
balance8873@lemmy.myserv.one 12 hours ago
:'(
MrEff@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
At the peak of the Afghanistan and Iraq wars the national guard and reserve (but mostly guard) made up over 75% of the troops deployed. More national guard units saw more combat than active duty units simply by sheer numbers. I did 8 years and 4 months in the guard and over half that time I was activated for two tours to Afghanistan. I did more overseas time than my active duty time equivalent. National guard units were also consistently being placed in shittier places than active duty units because the active duty commanders didn’t want difficult deployments to potentially get in the way of future promotions. So the guard also took the brunt of the casualties. My first tour was in the second worst area in the country at the time and out of all the US troops (we were with the Polish), all but one was national guard. We set the regional record for longest continuous direct fire firefight at the time and a Polish truck set the record for the largest IED hit (aprox. 550 lbs, all died).
The longest continuous deployment during the Global War on Terrorism was also done by a guard unit. The 34th BCT did 22 months in Iraq.
To say the guard only helps old people and with hurricanes is beyond an understatement. We provided the bulk of the boots on the ground and did the job and big army literally couldn’t do.
Aljernon@lemmy.today 8 hours ago
The guards job “in theory” is to help old people in hurricanes. It blew my mind at the time that National Guard units could be federalized and sent overseas. Wild that that is legal on any level. The whole point of the national guard is to defend the homeland and of course assist with natural disasters. That the President could strip the Homeland of it’s defenders to fight foreign wars was bonkers to me.
balance8873@lemmy.myserv.one 12 hours ago
I mean…it was definitely just a joke about the chonkers pictured. I didn’t and never will know the level of detail you described, but I’m aware that the national guard is wildly overused. I think there was a last week tonight on how fucked up it all is.
However, these guys^^ are hunting humans for sport and don’t deserve anyone’s respect regardless of if it’s their “choice” or not. So chonkers will be made fun of.
Dasus@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
I served in a military in Finland in peacetime. That’s basically what we use instead of a national guard.
There was no crisis when our company was on-call, but at least one or two companies stated every weekend to make sure there’s enough people to rapidly deploy assistance anywhere.
My older brother had to go and help a city out. But yeah, it’s basically just assisting people in crisises.
Unless Putler decides he wants to give it a go, but I strongly doubt it.
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