An important component of Michelle Obama's healthy eating, let's move initiative is decrying so called food deserts.These are densely populated urban areas parched of any food market oasis purveying nutritious food such as fresh produce, lean meats, grains and dairy. This forces the starving inhabitants to either travel far distances to purchase these products or make do by patronizing greasy spoon fast food restaurants or to subsist on overpriced alcoholic beverages and chips -- the only foodstuffs proffered by small establishments owned by and operated by recent immigrants.What Ms. Obama, presently enjoying a tax subsidized $4,000,000 vacation complete with tax subsidized corporate jet while attired in a dress without even sleeves costing more than a food stamp recipient's annual food expenses, doesn't mention are some of the causes of this human made desert. Understandably so, doing so would force her to confront some uncomfortable realities. So why aren't greedy capitalist,...(Read Full Post)