Food Desert Research Paper

Food Deserts Imagine a single mother, living in a poverty stricken neighborhood without any personal means of transportation. She walks down the stone-cold streets of Brooklyn and every corner she turns there is either a neon-green sign flashing 7-11 or a red-orange clown spinning a sign reading McDonald’s. In order to reach a supermarket or grocery store she leaves her kids behind, because of the hassle and danger of New York subways, and travels about two miles to feed her and her children a nutritious meal. Although eliminating food deserts in impoverished neighborhoods may not seem possible overnight or have an immediate effect, communities should come together to raise money to build a local grocery store or placing a healthy food trucks down the street, which can soon become a catalyst for completely

A food desert is a geographic area where access to affordable fruits, vegetables, and other healthy nutritious meals are either scarce or non-existent. About 23.5 million citizens in America live in food deserts with about a half dwelling in impoverished (“11 Facts”). Also there is “approximately 2.3 million people live in low-income, rural areas that are more than 10 miles from a supermarket” who are probably not owners of a car (“11 facts”). An average person walking on a well-groomed flat surface takes roughly about an hour and 20 minutes to walk 10 miles, which is what about 2.3 million people will have to do if they want to buy nutritious food for their families. The cherry on top of this disarray is that many of these food deserts go undetected, because the “ North American Industry Classification System place small corner grocery stores in the same category as a grocery store” (“11 Facts”). Unfortunately, these small corner grocery stores commonly sell trans-fat packaged food and fruits and vegetables of low