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Also the term "food desert" is already being replaced by "food apartheid," which better highlights the structures and decisions behind the phenomenon.

• zmgsabst 4y ago
  How does “food apartheid” better describe the situation?
  • ceejayoz 4y ago
    "Desert" implies force of nature. "Apartheid" implies human action.
    • zmgsabst 4y ago
      How is the decision of businesses on where to have stores like “apartheid”?
      • ceejayoz 4y ago
        Those decisions are based heavily on the knock-on impacts of things like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redlining https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redlining.
        • formerkrogemp 4y ago
          Fascinating. I knew of this in general but never had a term to attach to it. Thanks the link.