Sui<p>"[... T]he easy availability of highly processed foods promoted obesity while branded packages obscured what was happening on the farms far removed from shoppers’ daily consciousness.</p><p>[...]</p><p>Hyper-competition in the supermarket industry also pushed firms to lower retail worker wages, avoid locating stores in low-income neighborhoods and ignore American agriculture’s reliance on underpaid migrant farm labor."</p><p><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/made-by-history/wp/2018/04/27/the-great-american-supermarket-lie/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">washingtonpost.com/news/made-b</span><span class="invisible">y-history/wp/2018/04/27/the-great-american-supermarket-lie/</span></a></p><p>🧵 2/2</p><p><a href="https://troet.cafe/tags/capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>capitalism</span></a> <a href="https://troet.cafe/tags/propaganda" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>propaganda</span></a> <a href="https://troet.cafe/tags/poverty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>poverty</span></a> <a href="https://troet.cafe/tags/classism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>classism</span></a> <a href="https://troet.cafe/tags/USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USA</span></a></p>