Posted on 06/10/2015 4:37:40 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
One in four Baltimore residents lives in a "food desert," according to a new study released Wednesday by Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, who pledged to improve access to affordable and healthy food.
In the 2015 Food Environment Map Report, researchers defined food deserts as areas where distance to a supermarket exceeds a quarter-mile; the median household income is at or below 185 percent of the federal poverty level; more than 30 percent of households lack a vehicle; and there's a low score on the so-called healthy food availability index.
"We've never analyzed the food environment at this level before," Rawlings-Blake said, calling the report a "monumental step forward" in making Baltimore a healthier city. "I know that we can increase access to healthy and affordable foods as we move forward to dismantle this inequality in our city."
The study, by the Baltimore Food Policy Initiative and the Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future, found that children are disproportionately affected, with one in every three living in a food desert. The study also found that African-Americans have less access to quality food.
"When we look at many of our neighborhoods, there are life-expectancy disparities as much as 20 years," Rawlings-Blake said.
(Excerpt) Read more at baltimoresun.com ...
Now for the rest of the story. Building new stores was tried on the other side of town where I live. They go out of business without exception because of theft and robbery.
So they live in a “food desert? Where’s my tiny violin?
I am so sick and tired of the whining. They burn down the stores and complain they have no access to groceries like the kids who murder their parents and complain they are orphans.
Maybe they should lose some of their weight and walk to the store. Maybe they should get a job and buy their own food.
My market is exactly one mile away. It’s a great walk along a creek with the darn blue herons, turtles and fish.( And a few snakes.) Who can I complain to?
Yet when I see the women there they are always obese, maybe it is time for M Obama to got there and push her diet fitness crap, and then there won’t be a problem with them being just a quarter of a mile from a foo store
You’re right, but I’ll bet any chain stores that were destroyed will rebuild ASAP - to prevent the unassimilated gibsmedats from sacking the next one a few miles away...
A friend that lives in an expensive area a few towns north of Newark NJ was bemoaning the fact that a Pathmark in a town in between had closed; the “first of the month” shoppers were suddenly showing up in his town (because Newark NJ is also a “food desert”). A lot come into my town as well, but the Shop-Rite is in the corner closest to Newark - in a commercial area. Quarantines the crime...
Nearest store is 6 miles from us and you don’t hear us moaning and yes we are all white here.
All Ya’ll fell into the typical liberal rhetorical trap. The writer doesn’t say there is a lack of stores. They claim there is a lack of healthy and affordable food. There may well be stores but is it healthy and affordable? Of course not. Just look to the school lunch program for the definition of health and affordable because it is free and 100% USDA approved.
Is it edible or desireable? Well it’s good nuff for folks just ask Moo.
It’s hell to be trapped on a liberal plantation.
A 1/4 mile? So folks can’t walk a half mile? That’s nothing unless you are truly disabled. I see folks in the sketchier parts of town who are disabled driving those little sidewalk motorized wheel chairs around. I know I sound unsympathetic but this sounds like a pitch for more money to be funneled into areas where stores are routinely burned down.
Yep this story is a real tear jerker. Do these folks really expect a Walmart superstore to be next to every section 8 housing complex? Do they expect to be given everything. I suggest a new Gov plan called WORK or nothing.
Food desert. Yes, everyone should have desert.
I've driven by it hundreds of times and been inside only a couple of times. They had cans, pasta, bread, pb&j, plus junk food - better than the 7-11 stores that are left.
Liberals want to force everyone to take public transportation. Why can’t they take the bus?
the definition is utterly ridiculous
How are you going to do that you hyphen named racist bitch when you encourage thugs to trash and loot stores?
Ten miles from a supermarket here. And I absolutely love it. Pretty soon we’ll be eating from our yard, can’t wait for the garden to produce. We do have a little grocery store a mile away and use it often, though it costs more than we should spend.
A lot of stores in my area, Harris Teeter, Lowes, Food Lion have a delivery service for those aren’t able to come to the store....You can order online...I doubt any of the poor, destitute people are without cell phone/internet...
screw them they can starve or they can learn how to act civilized.
Here’s the thing: if a company believes that it can make money in a particular market, they will locate there.
It’s 2 miles to the closest store for us
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