God, through the prophet Ezekiel, plainly declares the sin of Sodom, for which they were destroyed. Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom , pride, fulness of bread, and abundance of idleness was in her and in her daughters, neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy. Since the end of WWII, however, our country has seen unparalleled economic growth. Oh, there have been some setbacks and recessions, but, overall, the economy has boomed almost steadily. For most living Americans, hunger third-world, death by starvation type hunger has been little more than a hypothetical condition, occurring elsewhere on the globe.
Food has, for all practical purposes, been in abundance for as long as most can remember.
That abundance has eliminated the practical need for moderation, and replaced it with gluttony. America may poke fun at the obesity of other nationalities, and the pot can call the kettle black. Not so in other parts of the world. When the Russians began to immigrate here in the late 1980's, I remember one woman who wept the first time she visited a supermarket. Fulness of bread is an American reality.