May 5, 2011

Michelle O's Porked-Up Food Folly

By Rosslyn Smith
What is wrong with this picture? Let's start with what it is supposed to be.  Those peach shaded areas spread across vast reaches of the American landscape are supposed to be our nation's so called food deserts.  What is a "food desert"?  According to those who presume to rule over us (or as it is officially known, the working group of the Healthy Food Financing Initiative [HFFI], a partnership between the Treasury Department, Health and Human Services, and the Agriculture Department [USDA]), a food desert is:a low-income census tract where a substantial number or share of residents has low access to a supermarket or large grocery store:To qualify as a "low-income community," a census tract must have either: 1) a poverty rate of 20 percent or higher, OR 2) a median family income at or below 80 percent of the census tract's median family income; To qualify as a "low-access community," at least 500 people and/or at least 33...(Read Full Article)