explaining the reason for eating unsafe food a respondent said that it was cheaper to eat a purchased bun than making one at home and that the poor had to live with this food and shouldn t be bothered about freshness or hygiene a good number of people per cent also admitted to having had diarrhoea while per cent reported vomiting and another per cent reported having had both diarrhoea and vomiting caused by the purchased food in fact the deprivation of the urban poor is worse than that of the rural poor