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It's better to just eat the better food you can already get
I don't need to buy a $5 Mango from Whole Food if I don't eat fruit and don't have $5. Better I should eat an apple or orange I can get from any fruitstand or grocery store. The problem is not the diversity of white upper middle class approved exotic foods, it's that people don't eat basic good food at more or less any price.
And for the social engineers out there - poor people eat fast food and more expensive deli food because they rarely have the time to spend preparing whole meals. Maybe if poor people didn't have 3 McJobs they'd have the time to prepare good meals. But in the meantime, put down the Hot Pocket and pick up a banana and some low-salt soup. And stop drinking.