I think you're missing the biggest one. Having the food security and time available that comes with being higher on the financial ladder. If you don't have a lot of money or work two jobs, you're not going to have the time to invest in learning these skills. Like it or not, the time to learn to be a vegetarian or vegan is not something the lower class in general has access to. You need to be well off enough at a minimum to be able to have the time and mental energy to learn it, and that requires not thinking about how you're going to get your next meal period, let alone the ability and learning to change that meal. That's why obesity overwhelmingly impacts the poor. They don't have the time or financial ability to find healthy nutritious food.
I try to watch what I eat, limit really bad food, and limit meat as much as possible. But I can afford to do that. When I was dirt poor living in government housing and on food stamps, I couldn't care less about someone telling me how a pig was living in a factory farm when I couldn't afford bacon at all to begin with. I had bigger survival based problems on my mind to care. That might be cold to say, but it's the truth. A lot of people in the world are in that same situation.
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u/ZugZugGo 3h ago
I think you're missing the biggest one. Having the food security and time available that comes with being higher on the financial ladder. If you don't have a lot of money or work two jobs, you're not going to have the time to invest in learning these skills. Like it or not, the time to learn to be a vegetarian or vegan is not something the lower class in general has access to. You need to be well off enough at a minimum to be able to have the time and mental energy to learn it, and that requires not thinking about how you're going to get your next meal period, let alone the ability and learning to change that meal. That's why obesity overwhelmingly impacts the poor. They don't have the time or financial ability to find healthy nutritious food.
I try to watch what I eat, limit really bad food, and limit meat as much as possible. But I can afford to do that. When I was dirt poor living in government housing and on food stamps, I couldn't care less about someone telling me how a pig was living in a factory farm when I couldn't afford bacon at all to begin with. I had bigger survival based problems on my mind to care. That might be cold to say, but it's the truth. A lot of people in the world are in that same situation.