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Food Insecurity Linked To Gun Violence. Urban Farms In St. Louis Work On A Solution
NPR ^ | 6-28-21 | Hurubie Meko

Posted on 07/01/2021 5:43:27 PM PDT by dynachrome

Straw hat in hand, Tyrean “Heru” Lewis jumped out of his pickup truck along busy Shackelford Road in North St. Louis County and walked into the treeline, where he had something special to show.

On the other side, uniform rows of vegetables — lettuce, radishes and bok choy — sprouted on half an acre. The land is not on a remote country farm, but just 17 miles from the Delmar Loop in the heart of the metro. As Lewis, founder of Heru Urban Farming, checks the crop he gets excited about its progress, raising his voice over the sound of traffic.

As he talks, he describes the need he has seen in St. Louis, his hometown, the neighborhoods where many children don’t have enough healthy food to eat, and where the nearest fresh vegetable can be miles away.

He has also seen how gun violence has become a fact of everyday life in these same neighborhoods. As a health teacher, he saw one of his students go to prison for a shooting. As a resident, he hears gunshots daily around his home, and three or four people get killed in his neighborhood every year.

(Excerpt) Read more at news.stlpublicradio.org ...


TOPICS: Food; Gardening; Humor
KEYWORDS: banglist; food; gardens; stlouis; urbanfarming; violencesolved
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To: dynachrome

BS … having cruddy moral and ethical values and also being a violent person is what leads to violence.

Not having to miss the off meal.


21 posted on 07/01/2021 6:26:13 PM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: CFW

The thugs have terrified decent people out of the cities—now there is plenty of vacant lands for farms.

If the thugs were actually starving they would do some “undocumented harvesting”...have to see how that goes.


22 posted on 07/01/2021 6:31:40 PM PDT by cgbg (A kleptocracy--if they can keep it. Think of it as the Cantillon Effect in action.)
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To: dynachrome

Gun violence is racist. Haven’t you heard?


23 posted on 07/01/2021 6:32:05 PM PDT by upchuck (I am not afraid of the Chinese Virus or variants. I AM afraid of the unproven "vaccines.")
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To: dynachrome

I searched, “grocery store looting gif”.
Nothing. Zip. Zilch. Never happens. Scrubbed from the big search tech giants.


24 posted on 07/01/2021 6:35:54 PM PDT by outofsalt (If history teaches us anything, it's that history rarely teaches anything.)
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To: null and void; bitt

Lol.
I should go back to that tagline.
The thought of a roving kung fu gang led by an asian cabbage that has a shocking victory ratio..


25 posted on 07/01/2021 6:37:18 PM PDT by Darksheare (Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same. )
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To: dynachrome
Ignore the catch phrases and consider that this guy's trying to do something good.

“I’ve seen the difference in kids when they get a meal and when they don’t get a meal, how they behave and how they focus in school,” he said. “So I truly believe that’s all connected.”

While he may have the inner city experiences and typical, dem talking point of big government can save us ingrained into his thinking, he's trying to do a good thing. Go ahead and put him down for that or group people together. Will he get anywhere? Maybe he'll change a few lives. Better than most people will do in their life.

26 posted on 07/01/2021 6:37:36 PM PDT by Pollard
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To: dynachrome

Rob all the stores into extinction and then complain about living in a “food desert!”

That’s the ticket!


27 posted on 07/01/2021 6:43:35 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ("Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy." ― Mao Tse-tung)
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To: outofsalt

I believe Target is their favorite. Work shoe stores are never touched.


28 posted on 07/01/2021 7:24:15 PM PDT by dynachrome ("I will not be reconstructed, and I do not give a damn.")
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To: dynachrome

Food insecurity my eye, people on food stamps have the highest obesity rate of any economic group in the US.


29 posted on 07/01/2021 7:49:05 PM PDT by Paal Gulli
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To: Paal Gulli

“Looting insecurity”


30 posted on 07/01/2021 7:52:08 PM PDT by dynachrome ("I will not be reconstructed, and I do not give a damn.")
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To: dynachrome

The lies leftists tell themselves to attempt to explain black culture are really something to behold.


31 posted on 07/01/2021 8:09:40 PM PDT by americas.best.days... ( Donald John Trump has pulled the sword from the stone.)
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To: dynachrome

32 posted on 07/01/2021 8:18:49 PM PDT by Redcitizen
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To: Secret Agent Man

NPR is Pravda. Commie bullshit.


33 posted on 07/02/2021 12:43:20 AM PDT by wac3rd (Somewhere in Hell, Ted Kennedy snickers....)
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