Food Deserts In Urban Areas

Food deserts are an area with limited access to healthy affordable food locations. Often times areas that consist of lower socio-economic status have more fast food chain restaurants, than supermarkets that carry wholesome nutritious food.5 Also, many people start to create habits when it comes to their nutrition. People can get so used to eating unhealthy food that many times when presented with options for healthier choices, such as, fruit stands and corner markets that sell vegetables and fruits many people can opt out. They simply are not used to having these options available to them.

Gentrification has not only been hard on individuals who have to worry about transportation, paying a mortgage or even finding a job is mortifying but there’s more to it. They also have to worry about how they are going to be able to bring food to the dinner table. “Price is a function of demand and the demand for things once dismissed as “poor man food”—like beans, peanut butter, brown rice, sweet potatoes, and assorted greens—is clearly on the rise.” (Inside the Gentrification of Food)

Bread for the city is a non-profit organization that has opened its doors in 1974 as a frontline agency serving Washington DC poor. It started off as two organizations; a free medical clinic and a home to feed and clothe the poor. In 1995, both the organizations merged and there are now two locations in the District of Columbia area that provide free direct services to residents that are low income and live in the DC area. It was created by five neighborhood churches that collaborated in order to fulfill the concerns of homeless, the hungry and the poor citizens of Washington,

Food deserts are areas, urban or rural, lacking access to full-service supermarkets or fresh fruits or vegetables. Urban food desert is a “symptom of disinvestment, spatial concentration of poverty, and institutional racism (Blumberg, 2015).” Processes that lead to the creation of food desert is the U.S cities include: low income, low access, and low quality. Individuals with low incomes are likely to live in an area where nutritious foods are scarce. They are least likely to afford a lot, or if any, of fresh produce.

Farmer’s markets allow families to experience the culture and passions of local merchants, farmers, and friends through freshly produced foods. In these communities, people buy nutritious goods difficult to find in their local grocery stores. For the past decade, the locavore movement has influenced and convinced many people to eat locally grown products as much as possible because they claim it preserves the environment. However, many people disagree with this movement stating even though it supports local farmers, it hurts farmers in other places. They also say it ignores economies of scale involving good miles.

The commercials on the television, the advertisements placed on newspapers and the banners by big conglomerates have one thing in common: They are mostly geared towards children. Chapter 2 of the book Fast Food Nation, written by Eric Schlosser provides a history of two big American companies, McDonalds and Disney, and how their selfish desires led to marketing directed towards children. Schlosser’s central idea and usage of argumentative techniques along with bias define this chapter’s purpose as an educational work designed to reveal the antics of big money corporations. The central idea of this chapter is focused solely on the greed and selfishness of big corporations as they try to advance their business and gain profits while being

I. Around eight hundred and seventy million people in the world do not have enough food and water. What even worst is population growth is getting out of control in many areas such as India and Africa. A. Many children are being born but are not having enough food to feed them B. Almost fifty million people in the united states, including sixteen million children live in homes that cannot afford food to eat. C. many countries around the world that are poor suffer the most of Hunger and disease, usually close in amalgamation and often caused by natural disasters or war.

We cannot deny that the death of Kitty Genovese was an absolute outrage and that it was something that should never have happened in the 20th century. Kitty was just a normal woman who lived her life in the city. The circumstances of Kitty’s death and also the details surrounding her death cause huge speculation and outrage which can be hugely linked to life in the city. This is the area in which Georg Simmel specialized and studied the effect of urban life on the individual. The death of Genovese occurred in 1964, leaving it hard to believe that it was only 52 years ago since this horrific tragedy occurred.

Key words: Food security, Universal PDS, Targeted PDS, subsidies The Public Distribution System (PDS) is the most fare reaching in terms of coverage as well as public expenditure on subsidy of all the safety net operations that exist in India. It is an important form of state intervention in the food system by means of a state – administered system of delivery of cheap food. The efforts to reform the public-sector agencies that provide essential services have been limited in India. Department of Food and civil supplies being one of the departments under the Ministry of Food has the primary responsibility of managing the food economy and assuring food security in the country.

In a study by Vollard A.M., Ali S., van Asten H.A., Ismid I.S., Widjaja S., Visser L.G., Surjadi C.h., and van Dissel J.T. on “Risk Factors for Transmission of Food-borne Illness in Restaurants and Street vendors in Jakarta, Indonesia”, the risk factors of contracting food borne diseases were affected by poor hand washing hygiene of the food handlers (street vendors), further relating to the fact that the food handlers may come in direct contact with the food by using their bare hands when handling the food, and also their low educational level which hinders them from the basic knowledge of proper personal hygiene which led to faecal contamination of drinking water, dish water and ice cube. A study by M.P. Azanza, C. Gatchalian, and M. Ortega,

The Weight of the Nation is a four-part film that focuses on the consequences, choices, children in crisis, and challenges of obesity in America. In class, we watched the segment about consequences, and it definitely opened my eyes to many things. Watching this film made me realize and acknowledge all the problems, causes, and possible solutions to this crisis. Coming from a family with many people who are obese, hearing these facts hit me very hard.

Food deserts are becoming a growing issue not unique to the United States. In 2010, it was estimated that 23.5 million Americans, including 6.5 million children, lived in an urban or rural food desert (Let’s Move, 2015). A food desert can be defined as a geographical area where communities lack access to healthy, inexpensive food options. The limited access to an affordable healthy diet presents a major challenge to residents living in food deserts. Instead of people’s main source of food being from a supermarket, communities will rely on eating at restaurants, fast food chains and convenience stores as their main sources of nutrition.

Food deserts are areas where individuals have limited access towards healthy food alternatives that are reasonably priced such as vegetables and fresh fruits. This absence is due to the lack of grocery stores within suitable traveling range. Growing up in Bridgeport Connecticut I played a lot of basketball, traveling with my cousins and my brother we would play all day during the summer. Going to camps and different leagues around the city felt like the best times and the only thing that would make it better was finding pennies and nickles on the ground along the way. This made our day because with five cents you can buy a piece of candy and if we ever had a quarter or more it felt like we hit the jackpot.