“New York’s city council has proposed a $5 million municipal farm-subsidy program, under which the city would buy development easements in the Hudson Valley.”
Seems as though impoverished city folk don’t have access to fresh fruit and vegetables, even though the Federal agricultural department shows city’s “food desert” statements wrong.
NYC-backed Green Carts have not solved the fruits and vegetables problem because “Systematic socioeconomic disparities in household purchases persist after controlling for access.” Or, “People gonna buy what they buy.”
http://www.city-journal.org/html/new-yorks-food-desert-myth-14425.html
That “food desert” definition of at least one-third of the local residents living one mile or more from a grocery store that sells fresh food? My wife and I live in a gated community mostly of other retired people, and the nearest grocery store is more than a mile away, but I don’t see anybody protesting lack of food availability.
Link at http://maggiesfarm.anotherdotcom.com/
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