No. Having lived in places that are now called “food deserts”, having relatives in places called food deserts, they are called that because healthy food — fresh

No. Having lived in places that are now called “food deserts”, having relatives in places called food deserts, they are called that because healthy food — fresh veggies are NOT AVAIALABLE and you have to schlep to get alternatives. The most egregious examples is the way that Native communities across the U.S., whose foodways are healthy and sustainable, who were responsible for the cultivation of corn, squash (i.e. the “healthy” organic foods that now available in the Whole Foods isles) have and continue to be persistently forced into areas that are food deserts by design [1]. It’s not that people don’t know what food is important, the core of their cultural practices have been clear for millennia on this point. The construction of a society that demands that some people be herded into pockets of deprivation is the problem. 1. https://www.davispoliticalreview.com/article/the-prevalence-of-food-insecurity-and-food-deserts-in-native-american-communities https://www.davispoliticalreview.com/article/the-prevalence-...