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That won't happen.

They will start to tax obesity foods (and in some places already have).

A lot of the reason that industrial food in America has such bad health characteristics is because it's cheaper. Filling things which taste bad because pre-prepaired, frozen, shelf-stable is hard to do with pleasing flavor without taking out most of the water and filling things with sugar, fat, and salt. Making it less affordable will make people make different choices, and scaling up other kinds of foods will make them at least a little cheaper.




...which immediately turns into a tax on the poor, because if you are working three jobs to get by then you have little choice except the cheaper, more readily available "obesity foods".




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