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  • From: Liz <liz@allslash.org>
  • To: Healthy soil and sustainable growing <livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] The Poor Get Diabetes; The Rich Get Local and Organic
  • Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2008 07:25:46 -0500

At 10:40 PM 1/9/2008, you wrote:

http://www.alternet.org/story/72417/
The Poor Get Diabetes; The Rich Get Local and Organic

Good points. One thing I've found, though, is that Hispanic markets, even the small ones in the inner cities, tend to have far more fresh produce, meat, fish and seafood than the other convenience stores, because their patrons expect to find those things for sale. In some neighborhoods, there are multiple places within walking distance to find fresh food. Unfortunately, those stores tend to be concentrated in areas with a sizable Hispanic and/or Asian population. The African-American neighborhoods don't have these same resources, even when the stores in those neighborhoods are Asian owned (seldom Hispanic owned). And as more and more Hispanic kids are eating in American school cafeterias and watching American tv, their food choices are shifting away from the fresh live food their parents preferred.

Liz in SW VA
http://life-as-a-spectator-sport.com




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