This is all a result of capitalistic theory, where the idea is that people are responsible for their own competition and the almighty dollar will work the rest of the details out.

And honestly, to a point you cannot fault it. People are incredibly lazy and resistant to change. You can tell people about keto, and how you lost 50 pounds in 5 months, and even show them pictures, and it's like you are speaking in human to a cow, they just mull over it with this glazed look over their eyes.

Sure the government could step in and play big brother, but actually the food industry accounts for a good percentage of the GDP every year, and guess what, most of it is carb based, and a lot of that is exported. So if you want to kill off that industry in order to make Americans healthier, then it will seriously slow down the economic recovery, or send us backwards.

Furthermore, the competitive North Americans will choose to eat healthy; actually they are choosing to eat healthy. McDonalds is hitting a wall and they have gone back to the drawing boards. Pepsi and other sodas are now using real sugar and trying to win back customers.

Really, in an imperfect world, I see no reason to complain. Keto people are being the change that they want to see, and they are actually seeing change as well. Everywhere you look, on the covers of magazines at the grocery store. You couldn't ask for better external verification of the life choices you are making.

The only way to force change to people who don't want to change is some ugly form of government. And changing those people is generally the most unprofitable change. Capitalism caters to the lean, witty, adaptable ones.