Reply #74: I'd like to go one step further, if I may.

[flvegan]

The truly poor and the homeless, just fucking leave them alone. It's called survival. I've never walked in those shoes, and I hope to God I never do. But seriously, if folks on DU are calling them stupid or lazy...well, I've got a bone to pick with them.

I'm a sports nutritionist x3 and have made it a big part of my life, so I'm willing to bet that I know more than a vast percentage of the DU community on the topic. As a vegan, it narrows even further. I can also tell you that regardless of your "class" 90% of this country doesn't know how to properly eat, nutritionally. So when "too stupid and too lazy to eat well" comes up, I have to laugh at far too many rich people to point fingers at.

Food stamps and like programs, last I checked, offer no real nutritional training. So shut the hell up. Survival is a cruel mistress. There you go.