re: When/How do we start punishing parents for disasterous parenting?

I think the price difference of eating healthy and eating poorly is overstated. Whenever I go into Atkins diet mode, I spend WAY less on food than I do when I'm eating poorly. Having a large pizza and a 2 liter of Coke delivered will cost me around $20 and I can consume that over 2 dinners. $20 can get me right in the range of a pack of 8 frozen chicken breasts, 6 hamburger patties, and a dozen eggs, which will cover all of my meals for 10 days, with water costing practically nothing. We don't need to make bad food more expensive for those that can afford it, we just simply have to stop giving away bad food to people that cannot afford it.

ETA: Dire Wolf beat me to it.