Is Food Expensive?

Here's a cruel question: How is it that so many Americans
can never afford to eat well, but they can always afford to eat too much?

As much as I sympathize with the obese kids in this movie, their parents need to face that question. The 15 year old who weighs 400 lbs. spends thousands of dollars every year just to provide the energy to move that extra weight from place to place. Being fat is expensive.

If all you can afford is fast food, (which is never quite true to begin with), how is it that you can afford a large order of fries, but not a small one? Two cheeseburgers, but not one cheeseburger?

Personal responsibility, or corporate greed? This polarization of opinion is like the ancient nature/nurture arguments in sociology. It's never just one. It's never that simple.

Of course education is one key. These people are painfully ignorant. They need education and self control. But when meth dealers hang around schoolyards, we don't talk about personal responsibility, we deal with them harshly. How are Nacho dealers different? The results are the same.

We can discuss personal responsibility, but isn't it fair that we meet half way?