And again you’re looking at it from a simplistic view. Through regulation, food stamps, direct subsidies, indirect subsidies, and a myriad of other methods the govt controls peoples food choices.
They’ve been pumping up grains/carbs/veg oils for decades, and peoples diets are very heavy in those.
It certainly isn’t because the those diets taste good.
Actually, it is in part because those diets taste good.
I said that they’ve been pumping the food pyramid for decades, and of course they influence dietary research as well. But the cost subsidies work out to about 10 cents per American per day, so I still hold that that is not a major factor in people’s food choices. Food stamps doesn’t favor unhealthy carbs over more healthy foods—that comes as a result of the recipients’ choices.
The government is a bad actor here, but to dump it all on the bad-actor government is, IMO, simplistic.