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<blockquote data-quote="lucylocket61" data-source="post: 1677134" data-attributes="member: 41885"><p>It may be that poverty is linked to a lower education. It is not true that it is linked to less intelligence. Many people cannot have careers or further education for many complex reasons. I get cross with the idea that poor people are stupid and cant make sensible decisions about food.</p><p></p><p>Not that anyone on here is saying that, but it a media narrative I hear often.</p><p></p><p>Many of the poor are disabled, or carers, or have mental health issues or had to leave school at 16 to earn a living, or continue as carers. We have many children who care for a disabled relative in the uk. Its not a question of them being too stupid or lazy to educate further or have a career with good earnings, its that, from a practical viewpoint, for many reasons, that avenue is not open to them.</p><p></p><p>In my local food banks the food given out is nearly all carbs and sugar-rich sauces of one sort or another.</p><p></p><p>(falls off soapbox)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="lucylocket61, post: 1677134, member: 41885"] It may be that poverty is linked to a lower education. It is not true that it is linked to less intelligence. Many people cannot have careers or further education for many complex reasons. I get cross with the idea that poor people are stupid and cant make sensible decisions about food. Not that anyone on here is saying that, but it a media narrative I hear often. Many of the poor are disabled, or carers, or have mental health issues or had to leave school at 16 to earn a living, or continue as carers. We have many children who care for a disabled relative in the uk. Its not a question of them being too stupid or lazy to educate further or have a career with good earnings, its that, from a practical viewpoint, for many reasons, that avenue is not open to them. In my local food banks the food given out is nearly all carbs and sugar-rich sauces of one sort or another. (falls off soapbox) [/QUOTE]
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