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A nearby local chain that has the highest concentration of ethnic and low income shoppers increased their emphasis on healthy food choices a few years ago. They keep the prices down and find healthy brands that are less expensive than many more known ones. It's incredibly popular. My point? People with limited food budgets will often choose healthy foods if they're available and within their budget.

I'm all for this. Back when food stamps began, they could only be used for real foods. WIC is quite restrictive, and it's fun to watch young moms puzzle over what they're allowed to purchase with WIC. This might be the best way to help nutrition.

So you aren’t for government getting out of not only the food stamp “business” but also the food production business?

Government involvement in food production is part of the Ten Planks of Communism listed in the Manifesto.

Equal liability of all to work. Establishment of industrial armies, especially for agriculture.

Combination of agriculture with manufacturing industries; gradual abolition of all the distinction between town and country by a more equable distribution of the populace over the country. ...

Enough is enough at some point. A century of this creating more and more poverty ought to have woken people up, right?