Via Radley Balko, I’ve learned of an NPR story that seriously fails to generate much sympathy.  Titled “For Some Ohioans, Even Meat Is Out Of Reach”, the story details the plight of a struggling mother and daughter in the face of rising food prices and a crappy economy:

The rising cost of food means their money gets them about a third fewer bags of groceries — $100 used to buy about 12 bags of groceries, but now it’s more like seven or eight. So they cut back on expensive items like meat, and they don’t buy extras like ice cream anymore. Instead, they eat a lot of starches like potatoes and noodles.

Of course, I do appreciate the struggle of poor people in this country, and rising food prices are hitting many families hard.  But take a look at the women featured in the NPR story:

I have to concur with Radley when he says:

…if NPR’s point is to show how the economy and high gas prices are making working Americans go hungry, you’d think they’d have come up with better subjects than two obese women, one of whom at age 40 has never held a job.

Seriously, it’s supposed to bother me that those two women have had to cut back on their ice cream purchases?

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