I have to disagree. My personal shopping bill never exceeds £100 per month. I'm a lousy cook and my meals never take longer than 25 minutes to make. Meat takes a good long while to cook, and the fast food which is so popular in food deserts is expensive
But there was obviously a point where takeaways/supermarkets and grocers coexisted before the latter disappeared. What changed in the spending habits of the residents?
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This hypothetical is all subsequent to the creation of the food desert. All I'm saying is that from the first it was created by and not imposed upon consumers
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If we're speaking about after the fact, we can argue that a bad diet compounds and forms a pattern of behaviour; that consumers have been duped into becoming "addicted to sugar;" that poor creates poor mental health and subsequently, bad choices, but then you're robbing the
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consumer of any kind of agency
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Agency can be manipulated by superstimuli. Those with the most life stress are the least able to "exercise agency", because it takes SIGNIFICANT effort to break cycles. Corporations are incentivized to make superstimulus foods (and make them cheap), read about the "bliss point".
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And food companies aren't the only ones who attempt to design their products as superstimuli. "Live in a food desert? Shoulda made better choices." treats human agency in a similar way as attached.pic.twitter.com/e9jbydF84u
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