Food Deserts

Food deserts affect millions of Americans. Giving people limited access to quality nutrient based, healthy food stuffs. Lack of outlets, distribution, and transportation are key issues to food desserts. Communities having food deserts effects significant lower-income populations.

Steps to reducing food deserts can provide positive gains towards improved economic opportunities, increase values of that community, most importantly better health equity to the people. Food deserts are prevalent in large cities, small towns, and rural farmer locations. 

Economic growth followed by decline contributes to creating large food desert pockets. These areas grow due to product innovations or war production demands. This loss leaves areas with high unemployment and polluted land and buildings, leaving little investment appeal.

Addressing options to lessen food deserts include government involvement along with corporate support, Government's crucial role requires providing incenting programs, that supplement investment s to these areas. Providing tax breaks, loans, and/or grants increasing economic investment.  It's extremely important that viable strategies be established that have hard set requirements.  Without open visibility on how the money is spend and it's ROI will lessen throwing "feel good" money that neglects a concrete solution.

Can the proper security be provided to guarantee real success to establish profitable supermarkets, pharmacies, and C-stores. Being realist on effect on the local people's rights will be one of the significant challenges, including low profit margins, high operating costs that plague these dead zones.

I support government programs such as. SNAP, WIC, The National Lunch School, Food Banks, and National Education & Public Health Institutes. In addition, I support companies that actively donate and encourage these programs, by not only with dollars and products, but requiring full and open visibility and financial responsibility. We should demand public disclosure for how our spend is benefiting everyone.