> A significant number of people end up obese because they're poor... Many poor people work long hours and have difficulty finding the time or energy to cook.

Every one of those poor Americans has a vote. One vote per person, same as rich people. Experts have long noted that there are more poor people than rich people. There's nothing stopping them from doing what western Europeans did, vote in leaders who provide better working conditions, better worker protections and better pay, and other policies that reduce poverty.

If only there were a drug that suppressed political defeatism.