Transition: You may be thinking: “ But is eating fast food really that bad?” “At least these people have access to something !” Food deserts also disproportionately affect people of color. In her article, “The Food Desert”, Jennifer Wehunt, a senior editor of the Chicago Magazine, interviews a researcher who has found that over 600,000 residents of food deserts within Chicago, that’s enough to fill Neyland Stadium 6 times! Out of that number, 64,000 people don’t have a vehicle, 109,000 are single mothers.The foodscapes these children live in don’t give them the opportunity to make healthy choices.” Another child said that their biggest obstacle in eating healthy was “sweets- because they’re everywhere.” The same article found schoolchildren in low-income areas in Mexico struggle to navigate around their food environment, quoting one student who said: “I know I should come directly home after school because if I don’t, there will be too many temptations to eat chatarra.Transition: We know that these people are low income, but who exactly are they? According to the article “Food deserts or Swamps?” found in the journal Science Direct and published in 2015, the prices of fruits and vegetables in Mexico can be over 25% higher in low-income neighborhoods than middle-income neighborhoods. It is less expensive and more convenient to go to a fast food restaurant and purchase a hamburger for dinner than it is to pay the same price for produce that might not keep them full or take 2 buses to the grocery store and lug your weeks worth of groceries back home.It’s cheaper to buy a candy bar than a banana.
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