Reply #54: bullshit [View All]

[Matariki]

i've lived in urban areas without a car and i could always get rice and beans and vegetables - sure, the best vegetables usually don't end up downtown, but still vegetables. i've eaten plenty of onions and cabbage in my day and i'm probably healthier for it. Tofu isn't the point, it's what happens to be cheap and available in the city i live because there's a large asian population. I'm sure you can get (for instance) a whole chicken, which is inexpensive and goes a long way.

all this talk about poor nutrition being unavoidable, as if it were something someone else does to you, is a misconception. as if people have no control over what they eat, as if people are the poor victims of some evil outside 'other', as if urban grocery stores only sell twinkies and diet coke. hell, i've known people who eat more healthy diets than that from what they get at the food-bank.

So how do you get from the point that a simple diet of unprocessed food is cheaper and healthier, to the idea that "fat haters have unrelenting and ill-informed misconceptions about obesity"?