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can somebody ELI5 how "food deserts" work (or don't) in the USA? (lemmygrad.ml)

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I've heard this term a couple of time but never actually looked into it, and it is such an alien concept to me right now. I apologise in advance for sounding dumb here.

I can understand slums and favelas having a harder time getting access to fresh food, but how come entire government-recognised and incorporated neighbourhoods with electricity, water and all those more complex services can't have small grocery stores for basic healthy things like rice?

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There’s laws. There are farmers markets, but they’re often overpriced. There are community farms, and some good work I’ve heard being done with that and trying to get people to have plants like blueberries, but there’s also a stigma in the black community because they see farming as reminiscent of slavery.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thanks, I think I get it a bit better. One more for my list of "US quirks to tell aspiring expats about to ruin their hype," alongside the existence of the KKK, ICE and lack of state healthcare among other things. What a strange country, invading Caribbean nations to keep rice prices down, but then feeding their people on burgers and cheetos.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

If you want to shock someone while talking about the KKK, tell them about the PATCON (patriot conspiracy) operation where the FBI infiltrated far right groups and instead of trying to sow division or shut them down, they used it as a way to covertly fund them.