Thread by @ahhite

@MacroFour @traderjodie Poor people will always buy cheaper food than people with more money. Across the globe, our economic systems are making plenty of poor people such that the food industry will not want for customers for cheap food. 1/

@MacroFour @traderjodie I think middle-class consumers are more likely to be drivers of what "the food industry" does/doesn't do bc there's more discretionary spending there anyway.

With Hyman's tweet it isn't so much the principle that offends, but the rhetoric. 2/

@MacroFour @traderjodie His message was directed at middle-class consumers & as @sarahkbowen1's book demonstrates, such messages can make low-income parents (moms esp.) feel guilty & frustrated about what they can/should provide for their families. 3/

@MacroFour @traderjodie @sarahkbowen1 It may not be coming from you personally, but there's a lot of judgement in those messages: that you are lousy mom who doesn't care about her kids if you feed them "bad foods."

It is, after all, just food. It isn't - despite what some folks say - "poison" or "toxic." 4/

@MacroFour @traderjodie @sarahkbowen1 Let's just remember for a tiny minute that the best predictor of health outcomes in developed countries is status (usually tightly linked to education & income), not diet. 5/done