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This is upbringing and education. If you grow up in a household that eats well and values food and cooking at home surely it’ll make a difference. I wouldn’t solely blame this on the individual. America sells junk food way too aggressively and way too much. I reckon there needs to be restrictions on that and even heavier taxes on junk food.
That's 70% horse shit.
With everyone in the house being over worked and under paid, everyone is too exhausted to spend the time to actually cook.
People are just making excuses for not doing for themselves, that's all.
If you don't know the basics you have a moral responsibility to learn the basics. It's part of being an adult. But American culture discourages people from pursuing maturity and enables them to do dumb shit like live solely off of processed foods. And it's able to do that because most Americans don't want responsibility. They want their lives lived for them and corporations exploit that.