One of the things I have ranted and raved about is the cramming of too many people into small areas and the damage it causes to the spiritual, social and physical health of those who are trapped there.
A "Food Desert" was not invented by the article writer for National Geographic, the term has been used for sometime and does not refer to the drought plagued mid-west. It refers to the centers of such trash heaps as Chicago, Detroit, New Orleans, New York, Los Angeles, Houston, Baltimore and other sink hole of poverty and entitlement.
A "Food Desert" is described as an area of poverty, unemployment and entitlement, where proper grocery stores are more than a half mile away from the hungry and Snap holding people. In many cases these people do not own a car. Here, I would think about a bike, trike, public transportation, but then in these areas the murders, rapes, theft and beatings run rampant and going to the grocery store may endanger your life.
These areas are filled with junk food emporiums of bad health, bad nutrition and just crap food. The MacDonald's, Burger Kings, Wendy's, Taco Bell's, Panda Expresses, Carl Juniors, Jack in the Box's, Arby's, Del Taco's, Sonics, Dunkin' Donut's fill the are with two of each per block and and more salt, grease, sugar and calories than anywhere else in the world.
Thus, we have a nutrition desert and a health disaster, man made and exploited by giant junk food empires sucking the health and life from the poor and ignorant.
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