Some people fall badly through the cracks in the enept benefits system (non scrounging genuine types) and do require food banks.
Having said that, every time I see a food bank on TV there's a 23 stone woman big enough to have her own postcode cramming biscuits in her matalan bag
The problem with your example is bad nutrition and diet effects your development especially as a child and baby.
Let's say that woman came from a poor background and mother didn't know any better so she ate crap and then subsequently fed her baby crap. You have heard the stories gave the baby coke in their milk bottle, pizza and McDonald's and chips and crisps galore.
Subsequently that child through no actions of their own now hasn't developed mentally to their full potential they don't know any better and subsequently eat crap and pass the same thing down the line.
To fix that issue you would need to tax all refined and processed food to the point it forces people to learn how to cook from scratch from raw ingredients.
How many folk do you think can cook scrambled eggs properly? How many bother when frosties is an alternative?
Tax frosties so it's £5 a pack for the small one and £10 for the big one and I'm sure overnight you would see a massive change in obesity and nutrition levels.
The whole sugar tax on drinks was made by an idiot Jamie Oliver. It should have been a tax on refined drinks not sugary drinks. I don't want sugar being replaced by aspartame we already have diet lemonade with no sugar and sweeteners so I don't want the normal version to be the exact same just with a spoonful of sugar in it.
The government is to blame for not tackling the real problem. It also let a failed celebrity chef have too much power through social media and TV appearances. Put someone who knows what they are doing in charge and you can end the vicious cycle a lot of folk are in.
I went to morrisons the other week and I saw 2 parents come out their car in front that must have been 50 stone combined. I then saw they had a young toddler who looked overweight and I felt extremely sorry for him. He has no chance. He will end up exactly like them through no fault of his own.
There should be a tax on all refined products with the more refining done the bigger the tax. If chemicals are used to refine then an even bigger tax. If heat is used to refine then a bigger tax too.
That way normal coke and diet coke cost the same and both are taxed to the point it's expensive to buy as a luxury product. The alternative would be fruit juices which are less refined would still be more expensive but less so and a better alternative overall however the best option would be water which wouldn't be taxed at all. Remove all taxes from natural products which are unrefined and unprocessed.
