An excerpt from the documentary Carb-Loaded: A Culture Dying to Eat that discusses what a food desert is. You can also watch the full film on iTunes, Amazon...etc.
In the us is, we pay farmers to grow the crops that become processed food and we lend money to the ones who process it into sugar. Rather than complicating it further by adding taxes that end users pay directly, how about we stop paying tax dollars to have the crap grown and processed.
most agriculture subsidizes go to animal agriculture and crops to feed those animals if consumers that were able stopped contributing to these industries and switched to a vegan diet we could change the demand and make it more accessible to low income families i definitely agree that legislation should be put in place with the well-being of its citizens in mind but realistically that will never happen so we the consumers have to hold are selfs morality accountable for the industries we hand our money to not only for the general well-being of other humans but also non-human animals and the environment.
I am speaking as someone with a background on the impact of highway transportation details upon urban, suburban, exurban, and rural economic geography in the US. Modern suburbs were an outcome of WWII domestic Army camp design. Contractors would hire 2-300 otherwise unemployable and undraftable marginal workers and train them by a simple process so that in under six months they could build a facility with two to three thousand buildings for 30,000 soldiers. Hundreds of such camps were built. Part of the cost-reduction process was to use very lightly-built roads amongst barracks, that could tolerate jeeps, and reserving heavily-built roads for places that dealt with truckloads of supplies. So, PXs, motor pools, dining halls, bakeries, and such were along those heavy perimeter roads, as they had to handle heavy trucks. Starting in 1946, the contractors began to hire returning doughs to convert farmlands near big cities into suburbs. The practice of putting shopping places, restaurants, and hospitals on heavy roads was an automatic process. S,uburban shopping and eating areas were located along either already existing state or US highways, or newer local heavy road nets were developed, if lacking. The residential areas had very thin asphalt paving located upon thin gravel bases, and could handle light trucks, cars, and weekly trash trucks. Traffic was light, so no sidewalks were added. This is why most suburbs do not have corner grocery stores, in residential areas. The daily delivery trucks would rip up the thin asphalt used in residential neighborhoods Once containerization began (1960s) distributors switched exclusively to very large, very heavy containers. This further restricted shopping (and such) to main highways. In urban areas, the residential streets were, and still are, rather thin, and rely upon bases of sand and cinders, and two layers of paving bricks (4" by 4" by 8'). These wear surprisingly well, but were known to form ruts over several years of heavy use. That is, the bricks sagged into the damp clay under the weight of trucks. In theory, the bricks--every few years--are supposed to be lifted up by gangs of men, city block-by-city block, the clay flattened out with a minor crown, and the bricks properly relaid. Cities stopped doing this in the Depression. In practice, bodegas in urban residential neighborhoods are now largely closed down, and the most recent bodegas are now located along main avenues adjacent to residential areas. There is no effective parking for modern delivery trucks, however. So, modern bodegas use lighter trucks operating out of transfer yards, which are poorly documented. These transfer yards are closing down. As of now, large supermarkets are scattered about big cities, and they must be located along intersections of heavy highways and all of the driveways and parking for modern trucks need to be wide, level, flat, and take up a lot of room.
People say that poor communities have deserts but that's not true. I've been to a lot of poor parts of the city were I still found markets. The one place you will see a food desert is in the ghetto.
I've always thought food deserts were a function of demand. If people don't want healthy foods, the outcome is a food desert. Not the other way around.
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Just wondering, what is your project about? What subject is it in, Geography?
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So what kind of measures the government took based on the research result?
What song is that in the end.
This song here: www.pond5.com/stock-music/41754914/unconscious-mindaiff.html
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In the us is, we pay farmers to grow the crops that become processed food and we lend money to the ones who process it into sugar.
Rather than complicating it further by adding taxes that end users pay directly, how about we stop paying tax dollars to have the crap grown and processed.
most agriculture subsidizes go to animal agriculture and crops to feed those animals if consumers that were able stopped contributing to these industries and switched to a vegan diet we could change the demand and make it more accessible to low income families i definitely agree that legislation should be put in place with the well-being of its citizens in mind but realistically that will never happen so we the consumers have to hold are selfs morality accountable for the industries we hand our money to not only for the general well-being of other humans but also non-human animals and the environment.
I am speaking as someone with a background on the impact of highway transportation details upon urban, suburban, exurban, and rural economic geography in the US.
Modern suburbs were an outcome of WWII domestic Army camp design.
Contractors would hire 2-300 otherwise unemployable and undraftable marginal workers and train them by a simple process so that in under six months they could build a facility with two to three thousand buildings for 30,000 soldiers.
Hundreds of such camps were built.
Part of the cost-reduction process was to use very lightly-built roads amongst barracks, that could tolerate jeeps, and reserving heavily-built roads for places that dealt with truckloads of supplies.
So, PXs, motor pools, dining halls, bakeries, and such were along those heavy perimeter roads, as they had to handle heavy trucks.
Starting in 1946, the contractors began to hire returning doughs to convert farmlands near big cities into suburbs.
The practice of putting shopping places, restaurants, and hospitals on heavy roads was an automatic process.
S,uburban shopping and eating areas were located along either already existing state or US highways, or newer local heavy road nets were developed, if lacking.
The residential areas had very thin asphalt paving located upon thin gravel bases, and could handle light trucks, cars, and weekly trash trucks.
Traffic was light, so no sidewalks were added.
This is why most suburbs do not have corner grocery stores, in residential areas.
The daily delivery trucks would rip up the thin asphalt used in residential neighborhoods
Once containerization began (1960s) distributors switched exclusively to very large, very heavy containers.
This further restricted shopping (and such) to main highways.
In urban areas, the residential streets were, and still are, rather thin, and rely upon bases of sand and cinders, and two layers of paving bricks (4" by 4" by 8').
These wear surprisingly well, but were known to form ruts over several years of heavy use.
That is, the bricks sagged into the damp clay under the weight of trucks.
In theory, the bricks--every few years--are supposed to be lifted up by gangs of men, city block-by-city block, the clay flattened out with a minor crown, and the bricks properly relaid.
Cities stopped doing this in the Depression.
In practice, bodegas in urban residential neighborhoods are now largely closed down, and the most recent bodegas are now located along main avenues adjacent to residential areas.
There is no effective parking for modern delivery trucks, however.
So, modern bodegas use lighter trucks operating out of transfer yards, which are poorly documented.
These transfer yards are closing down.
As of now, large supermarkets are scattered about big cities, and they must be located along intersections of heavy highways and all of the driveways and parking for modern trucks need to be wide, level, flat, and take up a lot of room.
People say that poor communities have deserts but that's not true. I've been to a lot of poor parts of the city were I still found markets. The one place you will see a food desert is in the ghetto.
Really funny how they only appear in BLACK communities, while this rarely if ever happens in poor Hispanic, South Asian, or Slavic hoods.
I've always thought food deserts were a function of demand. If people don't want healthy foods, the outcome is a food desert. Not the other way around.