'Power to communities': Chicago considers city-owned grocery store to address 'food deserts' after giants like Walmart and Whole Foods shutter stores
'Power to communities': Chicago considers city-owned grocery store to address 'food deserts' after giants like Walmart and Whole Foods shutter stores
The mayor’s office says it would be the first major U.S. city to enact such a plan.
The mayor’s office says it would be the first major U.S. city to enact such a plan.
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paving over huge areas of the earth with concrete and forgetting how to grow your own food creates bad situations. every community/neighborhood should by law have a green/garden area of a certain size that is capable of growing most of the food required to sustain the local residents.
That's not at all feasible for places with long, cold winters, or southwest areas without enough water, among others.
And before you say "well people shouldn't live there then", they live in those places because of the other resources. For example, let's say logging in Montana, or oil fields in Texas. You're not going to get the world to stop needing those resources any time soon.
That’s not at all feasible for places with long, cold winters, or southwest areas without enough water, among others.
I wonder how people in these areas survived without grocery stores, then.
They always had some kind of food importation. Unless you want to go all the way back to the first few people in the area who did subsistence hunting and gathering. But that's also not feasible for more than a few people.
and yet people in all of those places manage to grow their own food. humans are a resilient and adaptable species. but anyway, this is a tangent. even if the land has a playground on it, it doesn't matter. people can decide how to use a blank space in a neighborhood. if food grows well there, then grow food. if not, make it a farmers market and people can bring the food there. the point is....we shouldn't pave over the earth and then complain about food deserts.
Dear fuck youre stupid. The problem isnt fucking growing the food not existing it aint a fucking famine or blight. Its logistics you dumb motherfucker. The Central Valley here in California could probably grow enough food for most of the US by itself, but doing so requires a large logistics network. This has always been the rule since the first cities, even if back then it was jusy getting it from the fields to inside the city walls. It is exceptionally rare for a city to grow food within itself.
did you ever think you'd grow up to be someone who berates and swears at people on the internet?
Yes. Dude ive been a raging asshole since I was fucking eight or so, if anything ive mellowed out since then. Its just I fucking loathe abject stupidity, especially from those who seem to think food desert = no food grown rather than the much simplier answer that is nowhere to buy food. Ah thats no fair I loathe the seventh day adventists, mormons, nazis, and authoritarians far more than I dislike you. Its just something about your dumbshit comment struck a nerve. So in summary piss off dipshit.
fair. and i will piss off.....to my garden to harvest my roma tomatoes because the ones at the local store, are shittier and super expensive! co-located food/housing is common all across the world and is super awesome. :D
Having a garden (even a community one) aint the same as having an agricultural industry to supply a city dicknips.
because the mega-corp owned agricultural industry is so great....all city dwellers should just forget how to grow food because "someone has it covered". i mean its working so well. people are healthier and happier than ever.....certainly aren't any "food deserts" because the corps got it covered man! just wait for the monsanto truck to show up and feed everyone. or...dare to think out side the box and see that solving "food deserts" might just include tearing up some concrete and planting a few food plants instead of bazillions of square kilometers of manicured grass and generi-bushes.
Doesnt need to be corps, its just a matter of not breathing in fertilizer and pesticides. Agriculture is dirty and will spread disease, namely through the water table. Also if you want any even vaguely efficient harvest of crops it has to be done industrially not just random shitty plots of land.
Tone policing is the lame retort of the person who knows they lost the argument.
if not, make it a farmers market and people can bring the food there.
The suggestion is that this is essentially what is happening. The exact real estate that these buildings will occupy are not likely to be greatly fertile lands. They might not be farmers markets, but it's the same point you're making here.