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Indeed. Try finding food containing little or no refined sugar in a regular supermarket. Good luck :)


This doesn't make a lot of sense as a critique of choice. If you don't like the options available in a regular supermarket, you can go up one level and visit higher-end supermarkets, or even smaller specialty stores instead of chains.

Now, it is true that it requires more effort to find the foods you're interested in. That's because most people aren't interested in the same foods you are. There's no way to "fix" this problem beyond heavy-handed government intervention, and in a socialist society I can guarantee you that -- unless the Supreme Leader is also keen on foods without refined sugar -- you're going to find it even harder to locate anything which isn't preferred by the mass market.


Well, I can shop at Whole Foods instead of at Safeway. Choice isn't just what exists inside one store.


Go around the periphery, the "real-food", instead of all the fabricated food-like items in the aisles. ;)




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