While you are certainly free to have an anecdotally generated opinion from your Korean friend in West LA. You forget that impoverished people will make horrible decisions about what to eat when their hunger exceeds a certain threshold... like the Donner party did in the Sierra Nevada highlands many years ago.
As far as Mormons go... I lived in Utah from 81 until 1990... even had the mission based Mormons give us a few lessons on why the Book of Mormon trumps the Bible. We still have Mormons with multiple wives... try to keep up! lol ! Law enforcement there says we have better things to do than busting polygamist.
If you really want to understand where we are at with the new administration... give this a listen for 5, 10, or 15 minutes... If you think Kamala was a better choice...