In an unposted story, the N&R reports on the ‘food desert’ that is Greensboro’s Warnersville community:
The farmers’ market at the old J.C. Price School in the Warnersville community is a test to see how people living nearby will respond.
If successful, a farmers’ market could become a permanent fixture in the high-poverty community, which is considered a “food desert” by health researchers because of the lack of full-service grocery stores.
How do you suppose health researchers came to the conclusion that Warnersville was a food desert? A grant from the University of North Carolina. Antiplanner wrote about food deserts back in July, pointing to an LA Times story on yet another UNC study that concludes better access to supermarkets does not improve people’s diets.
Keep in mind that ‘food desert’ —-like ‘urban sprawl’ and ‘climate change’ —-is yet another trendy term devised by academics and government planners in order to justify expenditures of taxpayers’ money. And we still wonder why we’re in this mess that no gov’t magic trick will clean up.
