Houston Public Media<p>A proposed Texas law that would end the use of SNAP benefits, or food stamps, for buying "junk food" passed the Texas Senate last week and is now being considered by the House.</p><p><a href="https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/arts-culture/food/2025/04/07/518029/houston-area-lawmakers-bill-banning-junk-food-purchases-with-snap-benefits-passes-texas-senate/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">houstonpublicmedia.org/article</span><span class="invisible">s/arts-culture/food/2025/04/07/518029/houston-area-lawmakers-bill-banning-junk-food-purchases-with-snap-benefits-passes-texas-senate/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Food" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Food</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Galveston" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Galveston</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/HealthScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HealthScience</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Local" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Local</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/News" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>News</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Politics</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Texas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Texas</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/2025TexasLegislature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>2025TexasLegislature</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/FoodDeserts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FoodDeserts</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/JunkFood" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>JunkFood</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SenMayesMiddleton" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SenMayesMiddleton</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SNAPBenefits" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SNAPBenefits</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TexasSenate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TexasSenate</span></a></p>
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Political Bill SC<p>We have too many food deserts in <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/SouthCarolina" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SouthCarolina</span></a> and the elimination of funding to address it, I believe, will cause a humanitarian crisis in our state.</p><p><a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/FoodDeserts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FoodDeserts</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/hunger" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>hunger</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/processedfood" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>processedfood</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/nutrition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>nutrition</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/agriculture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>agriculture</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/USDA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USDA</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/farmers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>farmers</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://youtube.com/shorts/aYQBW0yFvVE?feature=share" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">youtube.com/shorts/aYQBW0yFvVE</span><span class="invisible">?feature=share</span></a></p>
Bytes Europe<p>Food outlet availability differs according to area socioeconomic status in Denmark | BMC Public Health <a href="https://www.byteseu.com/795431/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">byteseu.com/795431/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/AreaLevelAnalysis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AreaLevelAnalysis</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Biostatistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Biostatistics</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/BuiltEnvironment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BuiltEnvironment</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/CommunityFoodEnvironment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CommunityFoodEnvironment</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Denmark" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Denmark</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/EnvironmentalHealth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EnvironmentalHealth</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/epidemiology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>epidemiology</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/FoodDeserts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FoodDeserts</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/FoodOutletDensity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FoodOutletDensity</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/FoodSwamps" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FoodSwamps</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/General" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>General</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/GeographicInformationSystems" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GeographicInformationSystems</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Medicine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Medicine</span></a>/PublicHealth <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/PublicHealth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PublicHealth</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/RetailFoodEnvironment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RetailFoodEnvironment</span></a>. <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/SocioeconomicStatus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SocioeconomicStatus</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/vaccine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>vaccine</span></a></p>
Dining & Cooking<p>Food deserts — Part one | News, Sports, Jobs <a href="https://www.diningandcooking.com/1878759/food-deserts-part-one-news-sports-jobs/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">diningandcooking.com/1878759/f</span><span class="invisible">ood-deserts-part-one-news-sports-jobs/</span></a> <a href="https://vive.im/tags/EditorialsAndColumns" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EditorialsAndColumns</span></a> <a href="https://vive.im/tags/food" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>food</span></a> <a href="https://vive.im/tags/FoodDeserts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FoodDeserts</span></a>—PartOne <a href="https://vive.im/tags/FoodDeserts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FoodDeserts</span></a>—PartOneLife <a href="https://vive.im/tags/FoodDeserts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FoodDeserts</span></a>—PartOneLifestyles <a href="https://vive.im/tags/FoodDeserts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FoodDeserts</span></a>—PartOneOpinion</p>
Dining & Cooking<p>Cherokee Nation launches Hawiya food distribution program to combat food insecurity <a href="https://www.diningandcooking.com/1866553/cherokee-nation-launches-hawiya-food-distribution-program-to-combat-food-insecurity/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">diningandcooking.com/1866553/c</span><span class="invisible">herokee-nation-launches-hawiya-food-distribution-program-to-combat-food-insecurity/</span></a> <a href="https://vive.im/tags/CherokeeNation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CherokeeNation</span></a> <a href="https://vive.im/tags/CommunityOutreach" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CommunityOutreach</span></a> <a href="https://vive.im/tags/food" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>food</span></a> <a href="https://vive.im/tags/FoodDeserts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FoodDeserts</span></a> <a href="https://vive.im/tags/FoodInsecurity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FoodInsecurity</span></a> <a href="https://vive.im/tags/HawiyaFoodSovereigntyProgram" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HawiyaFoodSovereigntyProgram</span></a> <a href="https://vive.im/tags/MeatDistribution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MeatDistribution</span></a> <a href="https://vive.im/tags/NutritionalAccess" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NutritionalAccess</span></a> <a href="https://vive.im/tags/TribalSupport" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TribalSupport</span></a></p>
Dining & Cooking<p>Want to fix food deserts and lower food prices? Enforce antitrust law, activist says • New Hampshire Bulletin <a href="https://www.diningandcooking.com/1789006/want-to-fix-food-deserts-and-lower-food-prices-enforce-antitrust-law-activist-says-new-hampshire-bulletin/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">diningandcooking.com/1789006/w</span><span class="invisible">ant-to-fix-food-deserts-and-lower-food-prices-enforce-antitrust-law-activist-says-new-hampshire-bulletin/</span></a> <a href="https://vive.im/tags/AntitrustLaws" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AntitrustLaws</span></a> <a href="https://vive.im/tags/competition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>competition</span></a> <a href="https://vive.im/tags/food" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>food</span></a> <a href="https://vive.im/tags/FoodDeserts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FoodDeserts</span></a> <a href="https://vive.im/tags/FoodPrices" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FoodPrices</span></a> <a href="https://vive.im/tags/inflation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>inflation</span></a></p>
Magpieblog<p>The answer to the Guardian's question is exactly what you'd expect. The details are even more discouraging.</p><p><a href="https://mas.to/tags/food" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>food</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/DollarStores" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DollarStores</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/FoodDeserts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FoodDeserts</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/HealthyEating" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HealthyEating</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/dec/18/climate-diet-food-plan" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/environment/20</span><span class="invisible">24/dec/18/climate-diet-food-plan</span></a></p>
Paul Wermer, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0<p>The intersection of <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/FoodDeserts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FoodDeserts</span></a>, <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/health" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>health</span></a>, and <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/climate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>climate</span></a> impacts:</p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/dec/18/climate-diet-food-plan?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/environment/20</span><span class="invisible">24/dec/18/climate-diet-food-plan?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other</span></a></p>
Annother<p>Robinson-Patman—“passed in the 1930s to stop A&P from forcing suppliers to sell to it at cheaper prices than A&P’s smaller competitors. The law was so effective that the 8 largest chains combined controlled just 25% of the marketplace from 1954 to 1982.…</p><p>“But when the Reagan admin stopped enforcing R-P, & the biggest players started to demand special discounts from suppliers, [who] demanded more from smaller grocers to make up lost profits.”<br><a href="https://mas.to/tags/fooddeserts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fooddeserts</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/antitrustlaw" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>antitrustlaw</span></a></p><p><a href="https://ohiocapitaljournal.com/2024/12/16/want-to-fix-food-deserts-and-lower-food-prices-enforce-antitrust-law-activist-says/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">ohiocapitaljournal.com/2024/12</span><span class="invisible">/16/want-to-fix-food-deserts-and-lower-food-prices-enforce-antitrust-law-activist-says/</span></a></p>
Peter Riley<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.world/@AJStein_de" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>AJStein_de</span></a></span> </p><p>Some Sauces er Sources: </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/WalMart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WalMart</span></a> Box stores 2011<br><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/walmart-biggest-supermarket-2011-2#wal-mart-started-as-a-small-store-in-arkansas-that-didnt-sell-groceries-1" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">businessinsider.com/walmart-bi</span><span class="invisible">ggest-supermarket-2011-2#wal-mart-started-as-a-small-store-in-arkansas-that-didnt-sell-groceries-1</span></a></p><p>A Historical Era of Food Deserts: Changes in the Correlates of Urban Supermarket Location, 1970–1990 (2015)<br><a href="https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/2329496515604639" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/1</span><span class="invisible">0.1177/2329496515604639</span></a></p><p>August 2023 <br><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/food-desert-grocery-store-cairo-illinois" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">propublica.org/article/food-de</span><span class="invisible">sert-grocery-store-cairo-illinois</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/fooddeserts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fooddeserts</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/supermarkets" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>supermarkets</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/blamecapitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>blamecapitalism</span></a></p>
Alexander J. Stein<p><a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/FoodDeserts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FoodDeserts</span></a> are not an inevitable consequence of <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/poverty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>poverty</span></a> or low population density; they materialized for a reason. Prior to the 1980s, small towns & poor neighborhoods in the US had <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/grocery" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>grocery</span></a> stores... (1/2) <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/12/food-deserts-robinson-patman/680765/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/</span><span class="invisible">2024/12/food-deserts-robinson-patman/680765/</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/markets" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>markets</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/competition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>competition</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/antitrust" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>antitrust</span></a></p>
azteclady<p>Via Stacy Mitchell, a piece on the proliferation of food deserts, their history and what it would take to eliminate them forever:</p><p><a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/12/food-deserts-robinson-patman/680765/?gift=QFVDFKVE3HQ31cU_KmT1dE6iUvq0qv3pUv2sTwMbqdQ" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/</span><span class="invisible">2024/12/food-deserts-robinson-patman/680765/?gift=QFVDFKVE3HQ31cU_KmT1dE6iUvq0qv3pUv2sTwMbqdQ</span></a></p><p><a href="https://romancelandia.club/tags/FoodDeserts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FoodDeserts</span></a> <a href="https://romancelandia.club/tags/RobinsonPatmanAct" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RobinsonPatmanAct</span></a> <a href="https://romancelandia.club/tags/EconomicJustice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EconomicJustice</span></a></p>
nullagent<p>Some excellent reporting on food deserts in the Atlantic today.</p><p><a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/12/food-deserts-robinson-patman/680765/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/</span><span class="invisible">2024/12/food-deserts-robinson-patman/680765/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://partyon.xyz/tags/FoodDeserts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FoodDeserts</span></a> <a href="https://partyon.xyz/tags/RobinsonPatman" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RobinsonPatman</span></a> <a href="https://partyon.xyz/tags/stacymitchell" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>stacymitchell</span></a> <a href="https://partyon.xyz/tags/BlackMastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BlackMastodon</span></a></p>
ShantyMinister :mastodon:<p>This is a terrific piece tht traces how the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Reagan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Reagan</span></a> admin created policy tht increased <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/food" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>food</span></a> prices, reduced <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/grocery" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>grocery</span></a> store competition, killed 1000s of grocery store <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/jobs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>jobs</span></a>.</p><p>This Reagan <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/deregulation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>deregulation</span></a> allowed corps to engage in unfair price fixing tht disadvantaged smaller grocers leading to reemergence of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/FoodDeserts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FoodDeserts</span></a> in the 80s to now.</p><p><a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/12/food-deserts-robinson-patman/680765/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/</span><span class="invisible">2024/12/food-deserts-robinson-patman/680765/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/poverty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>poverty</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/racism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>racism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/greed" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>greed</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/antitrust" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>antitrust</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/food" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>food</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BlackMastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BlackMastodon</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BlackTwitter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BlackTwitter</span></a></p>
A Guy Named Brian (he/him)<p>“Food deserts are not an inevitable consequence of poverty or low population density, and they didn’t materialize around the country for no reason. Something happened. That something was a specific federal policy change in the 1980s. ... Food deserts will not go away until that mistake is reversed.”</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/FoodDeserts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FoodDeserts</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Poverty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Poverty</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/PopulationDensity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PopulationDensity</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/RobinsonPatmanAct" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RobinsonPatmanAct</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/EnforceTheLaw" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EnforceTheLaw</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GroceryStores" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GroceryStores</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GroceryPrices" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GroceryPrices</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/12/food-deserts-robinson-patman/680765/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/</span><span class="invisible">2024/12/food-deserts-robinson-patman/680765/</span></a></p>
Silkester<p>Climate & Food Deserts & Political Choices<br><a href="https://medium.com/@silkester/climate-food-deserts-political-choices-3321a91a8f5e" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">medium.com/@silkester/climate-</span><span class="invisible">food-deserts-political-choices-3321a91a8f5e</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>politics</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>trump</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/foodDeserts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>foodDeserts</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Crimate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Crimate</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/PoliticalChoices" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PoliticalChoices</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Health" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Health</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Environment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Environment</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/UndustrilizedFarming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UndustrilizedFarming</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Pesticides" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Pesticides</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Furtilizer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Furtilizer</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/deserfication" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>deserfication</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/monocultures" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>monocultures</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ChunkFood" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ChunkFood</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/foodindustry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>foodindustry</span></a></p>
KChernecky For Democracy<p>Another way <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.cloud/@whitehouse" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>whitehouse@mastodon.cloud</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://threads.net/@potus/" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>potus</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://threads.net/@whitehouse/" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>whitehouse@threads.net</span></a></span> can help rural America is to provide grants for those willing to invest and run grocery stores in <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/FoodDeserts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FoodDeserts</span></a> </p><p>How a grocery store fight fractured a Maryland town along racial lines</p><p><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/food/2024/09/21/maryland-snow-hill-food-rite-racial-division/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">washingtonpost.com/food/2024/0</span><span class="invisible">9/21/maryland-snow-hill-food-rite-racial-division/</span></a></p>
-0--1-<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://climatejustice.social/@disco3000" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>disco3000</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://climatejustice.social/@notwhatwethink" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>notwhatwethink</span></a></span> I see a lot of comments saying <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/StopBuyingTheirProducts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>StopBuyingTheirProducts</span></a>. Just to be clear, those are the words from people with a <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MiddleClass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MiddleClass</span></a> mindset and who don't live in <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/FoodDeserts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FoodDeserts</span></a> and on <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/PublicAssistance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PublicAssistance</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/YourPrivilegeIsShowing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>YourPrivilegeIsShowing</span></a></p>
Deb has moved! (see profile) 🇨🇦<p>Why Opening Grocery Stores Alone Doesn’t Solve Food Deserts — ProPublica</p><p>“We have to level the playing field. If we don’t have the enforcement of fair competition, these stores are going to be squeezed out the same way that many independent grocery stores have been squeezed out.”</p><p><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/food-desert-grocery-store-cairo-illinois" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">propublica.org/article/food-de</span><span class="invisible">sert-grocery-store-cairo-illinois</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/GroceryPrices" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GroceryPrices</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/poverty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>poverty</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/foodDeserts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>foodDeserts</span></a></p>
Steve Dustcircle 🌹<p>How <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/dollarstores" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>dollarstores</span></a> exacerbated <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/American" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>American</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/fooddeserts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fooddeserts</span></a> — and what it means when they leave them</p><p><a href="https://www.salon.com/2024/03/17/how-dollar-stores-exacerbated-american-deserts--and-what-it-means-when-they-leave-them/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">salon.com/2024/03/17/how-dolla</span><span class="invisible">r-stores-exacerbated-american-deserts--and-what-it-means-when-they-leave-them/</span></a></p>
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