Aside from cost figures, relative CO2 emissions, and economist concerns, fresh well grown food seems to invigorate people and make them fell good. A common mistake in modern analyses is to ignore emotional, basic human response. For example, the institution of Communism is a theoretically utopian idea for poorer countries, but when humans are the test subjects, the intended structure falls prey to uneven distribution of power and a deprived people. Similarly, even if it was more cost effective and economically efficient to outsource food production, the cozy knowledge of where the food on your plate originated and who produced it is left to cold mystery. The afore-mentioned documentary, Food Inc, exposes many of the lies behind the appealing labels on our food products (seriously a crazy movie!). In addition to taste and piece of mind, Maiser’s web document suggests how locality promotes preserving open spaces, which are rapidly disappearing in the cities of the U.K. and America. Urbanization is a rampant force that extinguishes humanity’s valuable connections with nature. Nature calms us; everyone who has hiked or camped can vouch with uncountable reasons why this is…
Combatting food deserts is not an easy task, however that does not stop some communities and its members from bringing urban agriculture to life. According to a local community member, a food desert is a geographic area where affordable and nutritious foods are difficult to obtain, particularly for those without access to a car. Food deserts can often be located in rural and urban neighborhoods where access to affordable, healthy food options, such as fruits and vegetables are limited or non-existent because grocery stores are too far away. The Seedfolk Store is a business incubation under the supervision of ProsperRochester, Inc, a non-profit community engagement organization in the Southwest area.…
The written piece from Food Justice by Robert Gottlieb and Anupama Joshi goes over the issues surrounding access to fresh food, communities of color, dominance of corporations and defines key environmental terms. It is overwhelming to acknowledge the seriousness and desperation that is displayed in the writing of this book. One aspect of the reading that stood out to me is the defining of terms such as food desert and how this term describes the realities of the living conditions of communities of color and my community in particular. The lack of access to fresh food, full-service markets and the congestion of communities of color with fast food chains and liquor stores are information that I am recently being exposed to and knowledgeable about;…
She highlights the relationship between food waste and hunger, pointing out how solutions regarding hunger should further involve the idea of seeking a way to re-distribute food to those in poverty. This relationship is also pinpointed by Janet Fitchen in “Hunger, Malnutrition, and Poverty in the Contemporary United States” where she argues the significance of hunger as a national problem in the United States, as it appears almost invisible to the public. Fitchen addresses the ongoing challenges of hunger, highlighting how poverty aggravates food insecurity and malnutrition among low-income families. She examines how dominant cultural norms regarding dietary choices influence the purchasing decisions of poor households, worsening their current living circumstances and amplifying the public’s stereotypes about…
Food deserts are defined as areas which have little to no access to traditional supermarkets with a wide variety of fresh and nutritious foods. (In my opinion this is a little odd beginning. Starting a paper with a definition doesn’t draw the reader in.) Frequently, the deserts exist in outlying (but urban) areas which have a high population of low-income and elderly residents, many of whom are without regular public transit. Due to the lack of nutritious food options, and the…
Many of The Great Plains residents found themselves requesting government’s assistance. “21% of rural families in the Great Plains received federal emergency relief” [National Drought Mitigation Center]. The drought of 1930s and The Great Depression also led to relief expenditures of $525 billion by the Congress. It was quite difficult to find food not only due to the lack of money, but also that everything was either sitting in dust or covered in dust made it difficult to eat. Farmers, while they were fighting the harsh conditions, did not have time to grow livestock.…
A food desert is an area where low income residents have limited access to affordable and nutritious food. Englewood has just recently built a Whole Food’s market on 63rd street. Whole Foods ;however, is one of the most expensive wholesale food markets in America. They charge higher than any other store because of its fresh produce, but if they would look at the area do they believe that was the best place to build it. Englewood is one of the most impoverished areas in Chicago: homeless living on every corner, foreclosed homes, and low income is a norm.…
Chicago is number three among the largest cities in the United States of America having an estimated population of 2.7 million individuals. According to the community survey conducted in 2007 by the US. Census Bureau found that the racial makeup of the city as 42% white, 36.8% and 4.4 percent Asian. The research showed that 26 percent of the populace is was Hispanic of any race. A food desert refers to a large geographical area without grocery stores, but if there is, it is located several miles from the residential areas (Shannon & Jerry, 255). People living in the food desert areas have to travel a long distance to reach the fast food restaurant. This paper will discuss food deserts in Chicago from the view of how food deserts have influenced…
As far as resources needed go, I will need to find ample volunteers to drive the bus into “food deserts”, we will not need to pay these volunteers because they will be gaining volunteer hours for themselves. I will need a small amount of money to purchase the bus and hopefully the state will help in finding these resources that will essentially be helping improve “food deserts”. I will also need grocery stores to be on board and willing to donate their supplementary food to the cause. The volunteers will be working for free and the grocery store will donate the food for free, so this shouldn't require a great deal of funding.…
poor towns which have had a lack of food sources due to the serious poverty,…
In South Central, Los Angeles, there is a food epidemic taking place among the population. For miles and miles, the only easily attainable food source is fast food; causing the overconsumption of un-nutritious, greasy, and fattening food. This is the problem brought to the public’s attention by speaker Ron Finley in his Ted Talks speech, “A Guerilla Gardener in South Central L.A.” Finley explains how everywhere he looks in his native South Central, all he sees are fast food chains and Dialysis clinics opened due to the lack of nutritious food. Finley views the lack of a healthy food source as a serious problem, and brings up his point; there are miles of vacant lots throughout Los Angeles, all of which could be used for the cultivation of healthy fruits and vegetables to better the urban community’s diet and health.…
A food desert is a community where the residents have little or no access to fresh, affordable, healthy foods. A place that could be considered a food desert near me would be Warner Robins, a densely populated urban area. Food deserts impact our lives because you cannot be healthy without fresh affordable foods, and our bodies need a certain amount of nutrients from those fresh foods. Without access to these foods it can do harm to ones health. Also it effects low income families that do not have access to fresh foods, especially the children in low income families that are not receiving the necessary nutrients from these foods. One potential solution could be to encourage others to start a garden wither it be on a large scale or a smaller…
"ERS/USDA Briefing Room - Food Security in the United States: Statistics and Graphics." USDA Economic Research Service - Home Page. Web. 09 Mar. 2011. .…
Have you ever wanted to learn about food deserts?Food deserts are problematic,because they don't give access to healthy foods and stores that sell them.I would help them by getting the healthy food and going to neighborhood so that low income neighborhoods would have healthy food in their area.community gardens can be put in the center of a food desert neighborhood or community so that everybody in that area a would have healthy food in thier neighborhood,another way to help food deserts is to get major brand grocery stores to build in requested areas to save gas money and time.more farmers markets to help the people in the city to get healthy food.…
Advances in American agriculture techniques and farming equipment allow us to potentially feed everyone in the united states.In fact the united states produces so much food that it is a leading exporter of food crops to other nations.Meanwhile, while many Americans still go hungry every day.Almost 50 million Americans are considered “food insecure” which means that they may have trouble obtaining food to eat.…
