Careful, this is a very dangerous path you're walking down.
This is the same thing as "why don't those homeless people just get jobs?!" - it's a failure to understand the complexities of the situation.
It feels nice though, because their failure is not on us (society as a whole), but wholly on them. Moral responsibility defeated!
swombat nailed it on the head: crap food is way cheaper than good food, to the point where a lot of this country does not have reasonable access to healthy foods. There are also other angles - e.g., single mother of two juggling two jobs - do you find something microwaveable or do you cook something healthy with the time you don't have?
In any case, this whole thing is way more complicated than just "hurr durr stupid plebes".
This is the same thing as "why don't those homeless people just get jobs?!" - it's a failure to understand the complexities of the situation.
It feels nice though, because their failure is not on us (society as a whole), but wholly on them. Moral responsibility defeated!
swombat nailed it on the head: crap food is way cheaper than good food, to the point where a lot of this country does not have reasonable access to healthy foods. There are also other angles - e.g., single mother of two juggling two jobs - do you find something microwaveable or do you cook something healthy with the time you don't have?
In any case, this whole thing is way more complicated than just "hurr durr stupid plebes".