RE: Food Desert Locator
February 13, 2012 at 9:20 am
(This post was last modified: February 13, 2012 at 9:25 am by The Grand Nudger.)
Absolutely, the places people buy their food mystify me as well (and what they buy when they get there, for that matter). I've definitely seen the convenience store shoppers but according to the data referenced here-
It seems alot higher where I grew up too, and this may have to do with the limitations in basing a conclusion on census data (but that is the data that we have, have to use something). Or maybe my estimation of just how many people shop at convenience stores isn't representative of how many people actually do. I supposes that's what makes this whole thing so interesting to me. We have food literally falling off of the shelves (a large amount of which probably shouldn't be called "food") and yet an area can be called a "food desert", and statistics seem to imply a relationship between poverty, transportation, access, and geography. If these guys have their heads on straight it would be unacceptable to me. This is the US right? Not some second stringer shithole of a country that can't address such a simple issue.
Quote:Findings also show
that food purchases at convenience stores make up a small portion of total food expenditures (2
to 3 percent) for low-income consumers
It seems alot higher where I grew up too, and this may have to do with the limitations in basing a conclusion on census data (but that is the data that we have, have to use something). Or maybe my estimation of just how many people shop at convenience stores isn't representative of how many people actually do. I supposes that's what makes this whole thing so interesting to me. We have food literally falling off of the shelves (a large amount of which probably shouldn't be called "food") and yet an area can be called a "food desert", and statistics seem to imply a relationship between poverty, transportation, access, and geography. If these guys have their heads on straight it would be unacceptable to me. This is the US right? Not some second stringer shithole of a country that can't address such a simple issue.
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