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How can you refer to your country as a First World Nation if parts of your population still suffers from scurvy ... or the near conditions of scurvy?
I'm in Canada and I'm Indigenous Canadian and I laugh every time someone refers to this country as First World .... I have family who live in remote northern Indigenous communities with boil water advisories, no indoor running water, moldy houses and people living with families of 20 or more people in a two bedroom house.
Actually, what you describe is pretty typical for rural living in most first world nations.
Ruling classes don't care about peasants out in the country because it's easier to make more money off of city dwellers.
And I bet they don’t even have scurvy on the rez!
No they don't ....... they have diabetes and heart disease.
https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/dozens-of-people-in-canada-have-scurvy-and-it-s-because-of-food-1.7120194
Don't forget the chronic alcoholism!
Well, that’s most people.
It's a health crisis .... it's not a crisis of a lack of food ... it's a crisis of the quality of the food
When I was very young in the late 70s, my parents still worried about having enough food. We always had just enough to get by. In 80s, the crisis changed from enough food to bowel cancers because we used lead shot to hunt birds, we were consuming enough lead through our food that it was a problem. I remember regularly biting into a lead shot when I ate goose and mom taught us kids to spit them out when we found them. Bowel cancers also increased at the time because everyone ate so much canned and preserved food at the time. Half of all my uncles died from gastrointestinal cancers. In the 90s, it felt like things got a little better and everyone started eating better. Then starting in the 2000s, everyone everywhere seemed to be just eating too much of the wrong food in great quantities ... people as young as 20 and 30 were suffering from diabetes, gastrointestinal problems, cancers and heart disease. It hasn't let up since.
The food they provide people is absolutely horrible. But on the other hand, it’s totally possible to eat food that isn’t going to give you (most) common health problems. It’s just people can’t stop eating the stuff designed to get you addicted to food.
Eat fresh food. Don’t eat meat. I know, it’s not always easy or possible in different locations, seasons, incomes, etc.
But back to scurvy, that’s so wildly easy to prevent… James Lind (mostly) solved that problem in 1747