Rich Nations Exported Poverty, Now Blame the Obese Poor
Mainstream media, via The Hill, offers a groundbreaking insight: obesity disproportionately affects the poor. It's almost as if the same corporations that gutted local food systems and flooded global markets with ultra-processed, high-sugar, high-fat products for maximum profit are now shocked their cheapest, most accessible offerings are making people sick. (Who could've seen that coming?) This
isn't a 'disease of poverty' that magically appeared; it's a symptom. Decades of structural adjustment programs, subsidized industrial agriculture, and the relentless marketing of Western fast-food chains decimated diverse, nutrient-rich local diets. Now, as the poor nations struggle with the health consequences, the same pundits pretend it's a new, baffling epidemic, rather than the predictable
outcome of deliberate policy and unchecked corporate greed.