Also, watch Food Inc. http://www.takepart.com/foodinc
The excuse that "Well, nobody forced them. It was their choice." is an elaborate illusion that needs to be done away with. There have been a couple of articles this year about how being poor causes bad decisions, not necessarily vice-versa. I'm glad those articles are being written because it shows at least a few people are starting to realize how the system traps people and others can be convinced it was they're own fault.
"Poor people, generally, make bad decisions—bad in the sense of their long-term physical, mental and financial welfare. But their bad decisions aren't the reason for their poverty. They're caused by it."
@http://killermartinis.kinja.com/why-i-make-terrible-decision...
Growing up poor is bad for your brain
@http://motherboard.vice.com/blog/growing-up-poor-is-bad-for-...
I have heard these arguments, and I don't disagree with them. I think that efforts would be better directed at educating poor people to make better decisions, than to act like a collective hovering mother and try to keep anything bad away from them. And we often end up being exactly wrong about what's good and bad anyway (see: the USDA food pyramid of the last two decades. It turns out we've had it basically upside-down).
This is drifting way off topic of this thread so I won't say more here.
For example, Whole Foods bought and closed a Wild Oats store in the same shopping complex as a Walmart. Less than a year after closure, that Walmart no longer carries organic produce. The closest store with an organic produce selection is 4 miles away.
Whether or not you think organic food is better or worse is irrelevant - Walmart offered a product to compete with another store, and once that competition was gone, they dropped that selection from their store.