Patterns from the Food-Shed Map Essay

If there are any grocery stores are available in lower income areas, most of the people can’t afford the healthier, more expensive foods in the grocery store. They settle for cheaper, but filling, foods. Food deserts are also known for having more fast food restaurants available for the community. Fast food restaurants are built in bulk in lower income areas because more lower income families use them. “Low-income youth and adults are exposed to disproportionately more marketing and advertising for obesity-promoting products” (Food Research and Action Center). Since the fast food restaurant is quicker and easier to get to, and cheaper, it seems to be the better for many families.

What exactly does organic means? "Simply stated, organic produce and other ingredients are grown without the use of pesticides, synthetic fertilizers, sewage sludge, genetically modified organisms, or ionizing radiation. Animals that produce meat, poultry, eggs, and dairy products do not take antibiotics or growth hormones." (Forstel) Do we know where exactly the chicken nugget from McDonald’s come from? All they have to do is just throw the whole chicken in a blender, toss it onto an assembly line and let some giant mechanical cutter chop it up into bite-sized nuggets for company. It is also amazing how long it takes a healthy product to gain customers compared to a greasy or boxed product. This most likely has to do with the culture.

In terms of governmental involvement in the management of food deserts, we argue that very little has been done legislatively by the Metro Nashville and Davidson county government. Despite the fact that several areas in the Davidson County have been identified as food deserts by the USDA, little to no legislation has been created to combat the problem and its effects on the health of its citizens. Edgehill has been put on the USDA map of food deserts, because it qualifies “as a “low-access community,” [where] at least 500 people and/or at least 33 percent of the census tract's population must reside more than one mile from a supermarket or large grocery store (for rural census tracts, the distance is more than 10 miles)” (USDA). However, the

This means that for all the other foods that I ate, I have no certainty of where they came from and who actually produced them. Some could have been sourced locally and could have been produced by immigrant farmworkers or they could have been produced across the globe by other farmworkers. The orange and the pear were the only foods that had a sticker demonstrating their country of origin and the company that produced them. The pear that I ate came from the US (place not specified) and the orange that I ate came from this family-owned farm from California. The website of the family-owned farm (Booth Ranch) highlighted its sustainable practices, its focus on freshness, its focus on community outreach, and the products’ nutritional benefits. The website showed an idyllic pasture full of beautiful orange trees being managed by a tight-knit white family. However, aside from a few photos, there was barely any mention of the farm workers and there was no mention in the website of treating their farmworkers

Hundreds of thousands of Chicagoans live in what’s known as a food desert. A food desert is in an area of focus that is short on access to fresh meat and produce. These areas are usually over populated with packaged and processed foods, which are not always healthy. They also have a significant amount junk that you can easily find in convenience stores and fast food restaurants.

Consumers have become increasingly detached from their food as America’s food system grows larger and continues to ruin the environment. The main problem is that most consumers do not know how their consumption habits affect the ecosystem around them. Nor do they know about how their food was produced. Information about how and where the food is being produced and wasted is essential, so people can shop responsibly. Short of legislation, Americans make choices at the grocery store. It is essential for all Americans to cast in a vote with their dollars to change the way that food is produced in the United States resulting in more sustainable food being more accessible in the aisles of the grocery store for all Americans.

The concept of a Food Desert is not new, “British politicians introduced the idea of food deserts in the mid-1990s… suggested a link might exist between distance to a grocery store and the diets of poor people” (Gilligan, 2014). It took many years before the idea of a Food Desert was recognized in the United States of America but it is now estimated that, “About 23.5 million people live in food deserts” ("11 Facts About Food Deserts | DoSomething.org | Volunteer for Social Change," n.d.). The inability to obtain healthy food choices leads to, “people in low-income communities [suffering] more from diet-related diseases like obesity and diabetes” (Truehaft & Karpyn, 5, n.d.). The existence of these Food Deserts is a factor that works to keep those in poverty down and makes progress even harder for them to

Food desert are urban, suburb, and rural boroughs without ready access to fresh healthy and economical food. The communities that are considered food deserts, has no grocery stores or supermarkets within a walking distance from their household. The families that live in those areas do not have access to transportation; therefore, they consume food that is accessible, which is usually processed. Most stores that people, living in a food desert, go to is convenience stores, which are usually near their households, and are accessible to some healthy foods. Another, place where many people receive their food from is fast food, and the food from those places is greasy and fattening. The lack of access to healthy food could lead to a lot of disasters,

Your zip code identifies your surroundings, and ultimately acts as a paramount heath gauge. Whether I put 01605 or 02119, my zip code in Roxbury, I am conscious of the stigma and resources that accompany every number. If you were to place those pivotal 5 digits into google you would get the crime rate, quality of the educational system, and possible restaurants nearby. Though crime rate and education are more recognizable appraisal of health, by established research on stress and economic status of the region, lesser known factors in particular, local food, stands alongside these indicators. Say you have an overweight family of three in Dorchester, MA. The father has diabetes, the mother has high cholesterol, and the child has asthma. Diet would be a priority; however, they are surrounded by McDonalds, KFCs, corner stores with overpriced groceries, and adjacent Dunkin Donut shops. To get the food they need, they would have to either travel towns over, or settle for a more expensive alternative. Unfortunately, that is not practical for many families. Their condition would worsen by their lack of exercise conceivably confounded given the lack of public safety. Your zip code is your living situation, your foundation, and instrumental to acquiring and/or managing disease.

This chain of production for the organic avocado continues as I determined that these avocadoes are packaged and distributed in Uruapan by a central distribution centre that was created with help through American investment into the region. After packaging, the organic Hass avocadoes I studied are shipped by truck across the border to another distribution centre operated by New Harvest Organics in Rio Rico, Arizona. New Harvest Organics then ships these avocadoes throughout North America, and in my commodity chain’s case, ships them north, again via truck, to Burnaby, British Columbia to another supplying company known as Pro Organics Distributors. Finally, from Pro

Meredith Rude Jenn Ritchey Texas Govt. 2306 3/01/2015 Essay #1 Political Film Evaluation Project Do you really know where your food comes from? Most would say yes, but they would be wrong. In the film Food Inc. you are shown how the food industry really works, where our food really comes from.

The United States Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) atlas on food deserts shows that most food deserts in California are in highly rural (USDA, 2017). Northern California, the Mojave Desert, and the Imperial Valley all have a high prevalence of food deserts (USDA, 2017). A closer look at the map also shows a significant amount of food deserts in urban areas of highly populated cities. Large portions of neighborhoods in urban areas like Los Angeles, San Diego, and Sacramento are food deserts (USDA, 2017). In this section, we will discuss the socio-economic characteristics of the people living in both types of food

The two books we read were Food Chain by M.P. Robertson and Over in the Meadow. Over in the Meadow is a country rhyme that talks about the animals that live there. Food Chain is about a boy who learns what it means to do harm and have karma come back and get him. In this essay were going to compare the two themes in the books. A theme is a subject of a talk, a piece of writing, a person's thoughts, or an exhibition; a topic. There can be many different themes in a book that all have different lessons. We will pick one theme that both of the book share and tell how they are similar and relate to each other.

Food brings many groups of people together, its diverse with the different cultures it represents. Each culture has a distinct taste or style of food. Growing up with one culture of food but living somewhere with a totally different style can be difficult. For Geeta Kothari being an Indian-American and always eating Indian foods, it was difficult trying fit in with Americans. When she tried American food, she did not enjoy it. She was tired of Indian food and didn’t like American food very much either, so she was at a crossroads. Living on the border of two different cultures is purgatory to her because she feels trapped between both cultures seeing as she does not fit into either.

With increasing immigration to the United States from 1800 to 1900, the food system has developed from very basic to lushly complex. According to Lobel, the 19th century was the era of the oyster in the United States, New York City was a particularly important oyster center, the national wholesale distributor for pickled and preserved oysters sent to ports domestic and foreign. As for fresh vegetables, they were not commonly consumed in the 1800s, though the diet expanded to incorporate them by the second half of the century. Fruits also were more commonly eaten in stewed and dessert forms rather than fresh. (Lobel, 1) In the meantime, the European immigrants increased quickly, from 200 million to