Seriously. In both the East and the West, everybody asks this question.
Oh, dear me. Pardon, I must go AFK to bathe my eyeballs in bleach.
Why!?
(This thread is self-moderated, because I dont want to inadvertently create yet another spam megathread for idiots trying to bump their post counts. Illiterate one-liners and other low-quality posts will be deleted with extreme prejudice. Lets keep this thread fit and trim. But here, I will not delete posts I simply disagree with. Flame away!)I think it is because the availability of food is high and affordable, specially when it comes to processed goods. It is in the early 2000s when they realize that the rate of obesity is extremely high and the government could not just alter the way americans live for so long.