Food Deserts: Another Way the Deck Is Stacked Against Car-Free Americans

Slate has posted this map to illustrate the concentration of “food deserts,” where large numbers of people don’t have access to fresh food. The USDA considers households more than a mile from a supermarket and without access to a car to be in food deserts, often with only convenience-store junk food for nourishment. In 2009, [...]

Source: http://dc.streetsblog.org/2011/01/04/food-deserts-another-way-the-deck-is-stacked-against-car-free-americans/

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