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In 2010, 18 million people lived in a food desert, without reasonable accessibility to any grocery store, and 41.2 million people live in a food-insecure househ
by peterwwillis 9y ago
In 2010, 18 million people lived in a food desert, without reasonable accessibility to any grocery store, and 41.2 million people live in a food-insecure household.
That's 10 percent of the population with no access to healthy food, and 1 in 7 Americans going hungry every year.
And this guy wants to build Diners (where no grocery stores exist) and not only collect food there, but cook and serve it to people. And thinks this will solve our nutrition problems.
Sorry, but this guy is a fucking idiot. Besides the fact that this would be a bigger infrastructure project than fixing all our ailing bridges and roads, How are you going to handle thousands of people all wanting to eat at the same time? Are you going to provide transportation for them all? Leftovers? Handle all possible allergies, dietary and religious restrictions? Is the food going to cover a range of cuisines, since people in the US all come from varying backgrounds and traditions?
There's probably a thousand different problems with forcing people to go to a specific place every single day just to get a meal, besides the fact that this would never get funded by the government, because almost all food banks and soup kitchens are privately funded, because the government won't.