can somebody ELI5 how "food deserts" work (or don't) in the USA? (lemmygrad.ml)

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I've heard this term a couple of time but never actually looked into it, and it is such an alien concept to me right now. I apologise in advance for sounding dumb here.

I can understand slums and favelas having a harder time getting access to fresh food, but how come entire government-recognised and incorporated neighbourhoods with electricity, water and all those more complex services can't have small grocery stores for basic healthy things like rice?

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[-] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Health consciousness in America is about as equally as low as people's class consciousness and requires a similar sort of de-programing that you need to become a socialist. Recently I started learning about the carcinogenic garbage that they put in commercial soaps and now I'm going to be sticking to more natural stuff from now on.

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