Healthy soil and sustainable growing

[Liz <liz@allslash.org>]

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