Reply #9: I can't explain the attitude toward your choices [View All]

[Bill McBlueState]

People need to remember, though, that in Bush's America, buying specialty foods is not a luxury everyone can afford. First, there's the cost. If organic milk is $4 a gallon and regular milk is $3 a gallon, a single parent making poverty-level wages is going to buy the regular milk, if she can afford milk at all. Second, there's the availability. Stores specializing in whole foods are rare, and are open fewer hours. Someone who has less reliable transportation and works long hours is more likely to stop by the 24-hour supermarket on the way home from work than make a special trip to the whole foods store.

I'm sure nobody likes filling their kids up with chemical additives, but mass-produced, low-nutrition food is cheaper and more readily available than the more healthful alternatives.

Possibly, the cafeteria attendant who treated you poorly sees you as having disposable income she wishes she had, so she could buy her kids better food. It's an unwarranted assumption on her part, but maybe that's what's driving her.