• betwixthewires@lemmy.basedcount.com
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    So that sucks, but I just don’t see it being entirely about poverty in this case. There’s not a single neighbor of theirs who they could ask “hey, next time you drive to Walmart let me ride with you”? They hit their diet to save money? There’s no churches around them doing food pantry days?

    Scurvy… You can prevent scurvy by eating literally anything uncooked, including meat. You can get vitamin C from grass. Sounds to me like these people are wholly uninterested in understanding anything about nutrition and diet and don’t talk to their neighbors at all.

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      1 year ago

      Did you just blame poor people for being unhealthy because they don’t want to eat grass?

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        Oh the indignity! I can hear it now. “Eating only things with a nutrition label on the box is a yuman right!”

        I eat weeds. Wild weeds from the yard. For fun. They’re tasty. You should try it. Most of them are harmless and nutritious, shit, dandelions were an imported food crop from Europe. Double check what you’re eating first but they can be really good.

        I didn’t blame them for not eating grass I said that you should know a thing or two about nutrition if you intend to, you know, survive. I don’t know about you, but if I was so poor I was living off of scones alone for 3 months, I’d be looking up wild food and learning about vitamin deficiency, and I’d be entirely willing to eat grass to prevent fucking scurvy.

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          You have a yard. Many people do not. People live in parts of the US that are deserts made of shitty buildings and huge roads.

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            1 year ago

            Those places are called “cities.” And the people in question also have a yard, they’re renting a house in the country.

            And I don’t have a yard actually, I just live somewhere that there’s living creatures outside aka not a city.

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              1 year ago

              Yeah no

              Not having any greenery is not the defining characteristic of a city, it is a choice

              Look at this picture, it is the capital of Switzerland, the centre of it no less: