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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The excerpt below is from George Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier, written in the 1930s. He's talking about the poor working classes of England.

"Would it not be better if they spent more money on wholesome things like oranges and wholemeal bread or if they even, like the writer of the letter to the New Statesman, saved on fuel and ate their carrots raw? Yes, it would, but the point is that no ordinary human being is ever going to do such a thing. The ordinary human being would sooner starve than live on brown bread and raw carrots. And the peculiar evil is this, that the less money you have, the less inclined you feel to spent it on wholesome food. A millionaire may enjoy breakfasting off orange juice and Ryvita biscuits; an unemployed man doesn't. Here the tendency of which I spoke of at the end of the last chapter comes into play. When you are unemployed, which is to say when you ae underfed, harassed, bored and miserable, you don't want to eat dull wholesome food. You want something a little bit 'tasty.' There is always some cheaply pleasant thing to tempt you. Let's have three pennyworth of chips! Run out and buy us a twopenny ice cream!"

This was written almost 100 years ago. How much more junk food is available to us now? Thus, we have high obesity rates. [/quote]

Only a person who has never been poor would write such a thing. When you're poor you quickly realize that you need some kind of food that will sustain you until you get enough money to buy your next meal. In Orwell's time, most people would dream of ice cream, but rarely get it. [/quote]

So you think Orwell made up his observations? [/quote]

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