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Apr 4 2014 02:25am
I do not buy fresh produce, I only buy processed and packaged foods, so I know they are FDA approved.
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Apr 4 2014 02:31am
Quote (brmv @ Apr 3 2014 11:00pm)
how far do you need to travel to get the following selection of fresh produce (ie not frozen or processed):
10 types (not varieties) of vegetables (include potato and tomato here)
5 types of fruit/berries
3 types of meat (pork, beef, lamb, goat, kangaroo, moose, etc)
2 types of seafood (fish, molluscs, crustaceans, etc)

just read an article about the lack of availability of fresh produce in poorer neighbourhoods
http://www.theguardian.com/cities/2014/mar/17/atlanta-food-deserts-stranded-struggling-survive

so wondering what availability the pard posters have
also, is there a solution to those 'food deserts'?
is there the need for the government (state of federal) to address this issue
(i know what the libertarians will answer, so only looking for serious responses)


10-15 minute walk from where I live. So between a half mile and a mile.
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Apr 4 2014 07:37am
Fruits and veggies are a five minute walk for me.
Meat and seafood, there are three butchers (including a pricey all organic one) within a 10 minute drive from me.
Plus the usual range of big box style grocery stores, 4 of them all within 5 miles.
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Apr 4 2014 07:44am
Quote (Skinned @ Apr 4 2014 01:19am)
This is a serious problem and has mostly to do with our agricultural policy.  Obesity in urban centers and hunger throughout rural America are both caused by lack of affordable food.

Essentially we the people are subsidizing the wrong farmers.  Corruption in leadership.

I live in a pretty affluent area, so there are several places to get the above mentioned stuff, even in Kosher or Halal :)

Well not kangaroo...but we have bison.


There are "right farmers to subsidize?????" I call BS. The small family farm is now a forgotten thing of the past. "Small" farms these days are multi-million dollar endeavors. Stop pouring good money after bad, people! Maybe, just maybe if we didn't inflate the prices of our food to cushion the wallets of farmers, food would be more affordable. Maybe, just maybe if we didn't incentivize farmers to grow food to put into our gas tanks - crowding out the use of cropland for growing food to (get this) actually eat - food would be more affordable. Maybe, just maybe if we didn't pay farmers TO NOT GROW FOOD in efforts to PROP UP FOOD PRICES, food would be more affordable.



Fucking Eurotrash doesn't know fuck-all about what libertarians think.
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Apr 4 2014 08:02am
It also doesn't take long for butthurt Eurotrash to report the use of the term Eurotrash, lol.
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Apr 4 2014 08:07am
100m to nearest supermarket, which has those things.
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Apr 4 2014 08:15am
less than two miles, less than twenty meters for most of them
living in the countryside has its' advantages


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Fucking Eurotrash doesn't know fuck-all about what libertarians think.

that's the problem. Libertarians are so insane and/or inane in their views that Poe's law often comes to play
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Quote (balrog66 @ Apr 4 2014 09:07am)
100m to nearest supermarket, which has those things.


You're closer than me, but not by much. Easy walking distance to my supermarket.

Quote (Gastly @ Apr 4 2014 09:15am)
that's the problem. Libertarians are so insane and/or inane in their views that Poe's law often comes to play


Yeah, those insane people who want the government to leave everyone alone. Derp.
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Apr 4 2014 08:21am
...I grow all my own fruits and vegetables , slaughter and butcher my own meat and poultry , catch my own fish in the stream out back , churn my own butter , make my own beer and wine and even have a moonshine still hidden in the woods .
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Quote (WidowMaKer_MK @ Apr 4 2014 09:21am)
...I grow all my own fruits and vegetables , slaughter and butcher my own meat and poultry  , catch my own fish in the stream out back , churn my own butter , make my own beer and wine and even have a moonshine still hidden in the woods .


I have to admit this all sounds awesome. What's for dinner tonight Mr Smith?

I really do want to do my own gardening and beer making, it's just not the easiest thing to do in a townhome.
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