It’s not untrue that we associate poor families with bad eating. Oddly enough, poor people actually eat the same and sometimes better than those with more income. Just like in the movie, Food Inc., the family of four explained the reason they ate a lot of fast food was because it was cheapest and they couldn’t always afford better meals. This article disproves this common misconception we hold by stating that “no significant difference was seen by poverty status in the average daily percentage of calories consumed from fast food among children and adolescents aged 2 to 19”. Children among the poorest families were found to have eaten the least amount of fast food. It is more of the middle class that are found to eat at these fast and cheap restaurants most often; not the lowest class families. This connection, that really isn’t even one at all, affects the ways in which poorer families are seen and even helped. The article talks about bills that have tried to be passed wanting to limit the items one can purchase using food stamps. Some of the items included fast food, junk food such as cookies and soda, and even seafood and crab, insisted by a state representative of it being unfair for poor people to be able to buy “luxury” foods when he himself needs to budget for things like that. The article goes on to say that this is an unfair thing to be doing to those who have less. It’s not okay to “[punish] against the poor”. There has been large conversation about this issue, whether poor people should take responsibility for being poor, and have their food assistance more regulated. Even though the lower class doesn’t eat as poorly as, say, the middle class. Full article Here.
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