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Sugartime
FROM Eater

If you want to be a good inspector: The application requirements, he said, were simple: thirty college credits in a biological or physical science. The hard part was the training. Inspectors must attend months of classes, covering everything from how to write violations to the science of food safety.

Tackling nutritional inequality will require more than putting supermarkets in low-income neighborhoods. These interventions won't change what food means to the poor families I met.
But lifting them out of poverty could. If low-income parents had the resources to consistently meet their kids' desires, maybe a bag of Doritos would be just a bag of Doritos rather than a uniquely potent symbol of parental love and care.

Both wealthy and poor parents used food to care for their chil-dren. But the different meanings they attached to food shaped how they pursued this goal.
Poor parents honored their kids' junk food requests to nourish them emotionally, not to harm their health. Similarly, wealthy parents who denied their kids processed foods did so to teach them healthful lifelong habits, not to deprive them.

Why Do Poor Americans Eat So Unhealthfully? Because Junk Food Is the Only Indulgence They Can Afford
FROM The Los Angeles Times