WalMart: Helping the Poor, Despised by (some) Urban Liberals

[gaelic cowboy]

Now, it's common sense cheaper goods allows poorer people to buy more things, increasing their quality of life.

not true most cheap foodstuff have lots of additives like salt, sugar etc in order to increase profitability while decreasing costs of production.

it has not been proven anywhere such practices help poor people, and indeed there health statistics would say it is actually bad for them to shop at Wall Mart.

[Sasaki Kojiro]

not true most cheap foodstuff have lots of additives like salt, sugar etc in order to increase profitability while decreasing costs of production.

it has not been proven anywhere such practices help poor people, and indeed there health statistics would say it is actually bad for them to shop at Wall Mart.

People aren't obese because of eating food with additives.

[gaelic cowboy]

People aren't obese because of eating food with additives.

Yes they are, at least if they are shopping in Wall Mart regularly.

Sure exercise is good for you, but if your eating poor quality ingredients then your chances of exercising enough to burn off the sugar/salt even in supposed low fat healthy foods is practically nil.

[HoreTore]

not true most cheap foodstuff have lots of additives like salt, sugar etc in order to increase profitability while decreasing costs of production.

it has not been proven anywhere such practices help poor people, and indeed there health statistics would say it is actually bad for them to shop at Wall Mart.

Extremely true.

Why does one pack of spaghetti cost one dollarm while anothere pack costs 10? Because the latter is filled with stuff that has nutritional value, while the former is filled with stuff like palm oil, which is horribly unhealthy, or sicilone dioxside, which is sand. You know, the stuff you find on beaches. I'm sure it has lots of nutrition in it though, I'm sure its not put in there to scam people....errrrrr......

Poor people are obese. Poor people buy cheap food. Cheap food is filled to the brink with palm oil. "Obesity in a can" is another name for palm oil.

And people still attack poor people for everything that's wrong in the world. That bum on 5th avenue? Obviously the source of the credit crunch.