The Current Food Of Food

One huge problem that the United States faces today are the large numbers of food deserts. A food desert, according to the United States department of Agriculture, is a neighborhood that has a difficult time getting quality and affordable food to their home. This means that people are not properly being fed and getting the nutrition needed for a healthy diet. The good quality food that is needed to maintain this balance is not near or affordable for the people living in these areas. Food deserts affect many people across the United States, especially those that are on the lower end of the social economic spectrum and live in rural areas. Many of these low-income families do not have the means to get to the supermarket and get the right products they need so they settle for lower quality but more cost efficient foods. A great example for a food desert would be the great city of Chicago who is ranked in the top two worst food deserts in the United State according to newsone.com.

A food desert is a location in which a wide variety of nutrition food is not generally available (Wrigley et al. 261). Food deserts exist in places such as inner cities and isolated rural areas (Morton and Blanchard 1). Food deserts do not exist because of unfairness against the poor, but because of constraints related to supply and demand. Even though based on the statement that food deserts contain a preponderance of unhealthy food; because such food is all people in food deserts have to choose from is an unsupported statement. The main implication of this conclusion is that the answer to the food deserts is not for the government to interfere with the economics of the food business, but, rather, for both public and private forces to facilitate the development of change in how the poor view and consume food.

All food should be available to all people. The concept of this is dwelled on in the article, “Food justice and Food retail in Los Angeles” by Mark Valliantos. Throughout the article, Valliantos maintains the notion that healthy food should be within everyone’s reach, yet inner cities are still suffering from shortages of fresh produce. To see this issue in action, Valliantos documented this reoccurring phenomenon in Los Angeles. The author gives a description of two areas within the city of Los Angeles, and how they are economically divided based on the amount of healthy produce one has at its disposal. He makes note of programs that already exist to help low income families receive healthy foods that they could not afford. He also

Issues of hunger and malnutrition are commonly associated with developing nations and are often overlooked in wealthy countries. However, there is growing areas forming across the United States called food deserts. Food deserts are a big recognized problem in our country. Food deserts are a problem today that we need to address.we need to find a resolution for this issue. America has more fast food stores on every corner then they have food markets. this must be fixed. america needs to recognize this issue and fix it for the good of its people.
 What happens when it is hard or a inconvenient for you to get to a grocery store to buy fresh fruit and vegetables? What if there 's a fast food restaurant by your house that you can go to instead? chances are you might be living in a food desert.

Poverty is an issue that can be discussed at great lengths, but the real challenge is finding effective ways to reduce or eradicate poverty. It is important to spend quality time developing approaches to the issue of poverty and how to alleviate it. Individuals living in poverty lead a life of limited opportunities and one of these limited opportunities is access to good quality healthy food. The American Nutrition Association considers this lack of access as a Food Desert defined as, “parts of the country vapid of fresh fruit, vegetables, and other healthful whole foods, usually found in impoverished areas” ("USDA Defines Food Deserts | American Nutrition Association," n.d.). One way in which American’s can work towards a future with less poverty and eventually one with little to no poverty would be to eliminate the existence of Food Deserts.

The best lasting answer to food deserts may be to turn them green. We should promote a compacted walk able community that holds up local business and grocers in the low-income area. Having ready admission to inexpensive healthy food shouldn’t be an extravagance of the superior classes, it should be an essential structural mass of all city

Can you imagine not being able to access good quality, fresh food? That’s the struggle that the residents of Homewood, Pennsylvania, face every day. Homewood is a food desert, which is defined by google as “an urban area in which it is difficult to buy affordable or good-quality fresh food.” For our last project in my Urban Research and Design class this year, my teacher challenged us to turn our newfound knowledge into action, and attempt to apply what we’d learned to a real community problem.

It is often said that knowledge or education is power. And indeed on the topic of food desert in America, knowledge or education plays a critical role, both for the scholars and the policies makers and all citizens especially the ones living in these areas. There is no better way to start analyzing the problem of food desert, its cause, its consequences on communities and its potential solutions without considering the critical role that education or knowledge has in this matter. We have to approach this problem with humility and “educate resident in these communities of the impact that the topic has on them as individuals...educate them to the quality of locally grown, seasonal, and organic food” (Guthman, 2008). The essence of Guthman's

With the many financial challenges and intimidating odds, Will Allen, author of The Good Food Revolution, built the country's most renowned urban farm that was once a big gamble to becoming an education center for every level that currently produces enough produce and fish to feed thousands in cities year-round. His mission at his company, Growing Power, is employing young people from cities housing projects to prove that a local food system can help troubled youths. Not only are local farms a place for troubled youths to learn responsibility but to also dismantle racism, create more jobs, improve health, and bring urban and rural areas closer together. Today, Allen is country wide with Growing Power creating community food systems. The title of the book, The Good Food Revolution, puts forward that growing healthy food will lead to healthier

This system has definitely placed quantity over quality, uniformity over diversity and profit over service. Wrong focuses and information are provided to the farmers to grow commodity crops. Food is being processed by machines and higher chemical process which is significantly affecting the citizens physically and mentally.

Is Soylent bringing an end to our everyday food? Even though this answer is not clear, there are many positive and negative speculations about new discoveries in nutrition such as Soylent. Many people have found ways to improve the quality of our diet and have completely innovated the world of food. This new revolution of food seeks to enhance our quality of life and to make food as beneficial as possible. However, this dream can also be perceived as a nightmare, for this revolution may completely take over our diet and change the way we use food. This change causes much discomfort among people who have grown accustomed to the food they see everyday, and they do not want to fix something that has not been broken. Products such as Soylent represent a future of food fueled by hopes and dreams, but if we are not careful, this dream can quickly turn into a nightmare.

I chose to write about how food and how it relates to social rights movement. I believe that this is an important topic to talk about mostly because there is not much talk about how race affects how people get their food. I claim that social justice movements and food activism are connected because a healthy diet is a necessity and it should be accessible to everyone and specifically every race. The purpose is to show that food is a necessity and it is a human right, which means everyone should have the same access as other people no matter what the color of your skin is. Moreover, I am arguing that there are “food deserts” all around the country which affects certain areas. “Food desert” are areas where they do not have access to grocery

In order for an urban community food model to be successful, the consumers must have unfettered access and the community must provide unadulterated support. One of the main strengths of Allen’s “community food center” is a focus on both low income families and the surrounding populace. Since the beginning, Allen set his focus on those who had no access to fresh produce. Using food that would have otherwise gone to waste, Allen sells what he calls ‘Market Baskets’ in which “all of the food in [the baskets is] food stamp eligible” (Allen, 116). Allen’s inclusion of lower income families within his model provides him greater opportunity to transform the urban food system. Rather than diverting resources to high income families, as can be seen by the high prices of local and organic foods, Allen’s attention for those who need fresh produce the most both strengthens his model and draws the

There are many problems within the structure of the food system that makes it unjust like the consequence of food insecurity. In the western world Black and Hispanic households face food insecurity twice the national average (USDA, 2007). It also

Before starting depth of our paper work, I will first give a little brief introduction about our topic. Because, even though it has been around for more than a decade, but eighty percent of people may still have never heard of it. Cummins and Macintyre report that a resident of public housing in western Scotland supposedly invented the more specific term "food desert" in the early 1990s. The phrase was officially used for the first time in a 1995 document from a policy working group of the Low Income Project Team of the UK's Nutrition Task Force (Cummins). "Food deserts" refers to a living area where there is no life supermarket selling fresh vegetables and meat, even do not have fresh farmer's market. People living in an area that only surrounding by fast-food restaurant which sell junk food or high-sugar and high-calorie.