FTFY RT @asteris: More Americans will subsist on water RT @breakingpol US House passes Republican bill to cut food stamp programs by $40 bn
@curtiskj what got me is the way that people took to living in "food deserts", subsisting on cookies. Docu is an eye-opener, even if skewed
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@asteris When I lived in Europe, the cheapest food at the grocery store was healthy & largely non-processed. Here it is quite expensive.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@asteris People often live off junk food because they don't know better (or it's all they've ever known) or because they have no options. -
@curtiskj apparently, dumpster diving is a real alternative in Europe. At any rate, it's very common nowadays -
@asteris I've heard that. It's not that uncommon in some cities here but our homeless population is larger and they have more practice.
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@asteris Some recent food stamp programs try to address that but progress is hard when your nat'l legislature thinks that food is a luxury. -
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@curtiskj as long as people do watch docus on such issues. Merely vegging (pun intended) out on TV news isn't enough to grasp them - 1 more reply
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