I still don’t buy that the govt doesn’t influence peoples diets. They’ve been working on it for decades.
People don’t watch the food pyramid, except for schools. People choose their food based on cost, taste, and preparation.
Taste is largely irrelevant once behaviors are set. Food we’re used to eating tastes good.
Again, the influence from subsidies is minimal. Government-subsidized lunches in school have been criminal, but I think five out of 21 meals a week for only 36 weeks a year—for someone who chooses to eat the stuff—only works out to 180 out of 16% of a kid’s meals. The home influence and other 84% of meals eaten is far greater.
Of course, the feds are working toward feeding poor kids breakfast and lunch, including weekends and summers, so they’re aiming to have a far greater influence.
The gov’t does influence peoples diets. And grant money given to “experts” to research the benefits of certain foods paid for by producers and/or companies that will benefit with a certain outcome of the study, then they send lobbyists to Washington so they will influence and “educate” the public.