Letters to the Editor
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Definitely true in my city
I live in Baltimore, near the West Side, and while there is a great farmer's market during the summer on Sundays, there are almost no grocery stores in West Baltimore. For me, it's no trouble to hop in my car and drive to a Safeway or Whole Foods, but that's not true for many car-less residents of poor neighborhoods. It's easy to say poor people shouldn't eat so much fast food, but I think many people take for granted easy access to affordable healthy food--not necessarily organic or farm-raised or whatever, just fresh produce, meat, and dairy products. Rather than dictating that chains have to build stores in lower-income neighborhoods, maybe grants to local food markets to install and maintain refrigeration for these foods would be a start, so that healthy food options are available where people already shop.