Food Deserts are neighborhoods where residents lack adequate access to food. Residents of a country as wealthy as the United States shouldn’t have to worry about getting enough to eat. In other words, we shouldn’t have Food Deserts.
Unfortunately, in a country where economic statistics carry more weight than human need, things don’t run as they should. In the last six months, two feeding sites that served take out dinners in Ventura Village closed. Between them, they were serving over 700 meals a night. I don’t know the situation in the other neighborhoods covered by the alley, but I suspect many residents there rely on feeding sites or food shelves to meet one of the most basic human needs. Economics says that the United States is still the wealthiest country in history. The number of people going hungry say that economics is measuring the wrong things. Understandably, a lot of the people going hungry would probably say something much more graphic about any economics that claims things are as they should be.
Of course, it’s easy to say that everyone should have enough food. There’s no controversy there. The challenge is distributing the food properly when the most basic assumptions that drive political decision-making focus on abstract concepts rather than concrete details.… Read the rest “The Food Desert is Expanding”
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The Food Desert is Expanding
from the series Peace House Community Journal…
By MARTI MALTBY
Food Deserts are neighborhoods where residents lack adequate access to food. Residents of a country as wealthy as the United States shouldn’t have to worry about getting enough to eat. In other words, we shouldn’t have Food Deserts.
Unfortunately, in a country where economic statistics carry more weight than human need, things don’t run as they should. In the last six months, two feeding sites that served take out dinners in Ventura Village closed. Between them, they were serving over 700 meals a night. I don’t know the situation in the other neighborhoods covered by the alley, but I suspect many residents there rely on feeding sites or food shelves to meet one of the most basic human needs. Economics says that the United States is still the wealthiest country in history. The number of people going hungry say that economics is measuring the wrong things. Understandably, a lot of the people going hungry would probably say something much more graphic about any economics that claims things are as they should be.
Of course, it’s easy to say that everyone should have enough food. There’s no controversy there. The challenge is distributing the food properly when the most basic assumptions that drive political decision-making focus on abstract concepts rather than concrete details.… Read the rest “The Food Desert is Expanding”