The poor do not eat cheap sugar and white flour because they lack moral character; They eat it because a starving stomach demands the fastest and cheapest fullness available, and food cartels have engineered poison to be cheaper than a single straight apple from an orchard.

The poor do not eat cheap sugar and white flour because they lack moral character; They eat it because a starving stomach demands the fastest and cheapest fullness available, and food cartels have engineered poison to be cheaper than a single straight apple from an orchard.

- George Orwell.