Disturbing Map Of Food Deserts.

[Unforgiven]

We don't really think about problems getting food in North America yet, over 13 billion people in the US have a difficult time getting good food.

U.S. maps ?food deserts.? Population: 13.5 million - Healthzone.ca

Food Desert Locator

 

[ironsides]

What is the problem getting good food, education, money? Most of those areas highlighted are not cut off from food.

 

[TenPenny]

What is the problem getting good food, education, money? Most of those areas highlighted are not cut off from food.

According to the write up:

The data highlight areas of the United States where a “significant share” of the low-income population are a mile or more from a supermarket, combined with the number of housing units without cars and the number of children and elderly living there.

 

[YukonJack]

What would be the reaction by patriotic Canadians if the same kind of statistics were used to reflect the eating habits of Canadians, by Americans?

 

[TenPenny]

What would be the reaction by patriotic Canadians if the same kind of statistics were used to reflect the eating habits of Canadians, by Americans?

I gather you didn't actually read the article. Can you blame that on Obama?

In this country, Statistics Canada and Health Canada have mapped “food insecurity” province-by-province every two years for the last decade. The 2007 study, based on the Canadian Community Health Survey, found 7.7 per cent of Canadians, or 956,000 households, worried about getting enough to eat or worried about getting good quality food.
Health Canada’s Nutrition and Health Atlas also compares provincial food insecurity — people worried about or going hungry — obesity, nutrients and physical activity.
Locally, the Martin Prosperity Institute has analyzed Toronto’s food deserts” mapped against pockets thick with fast-food restaurants.
The Toronto mapping can break it down to the neighbourhood level, although the census level is even smaller.

 

[Cannuck]

What would be the reaction by patriotic Canadians if the same kind of statistics were used to reflect the eating habits of Canadians, by Americans?

If they were open minded they would probably look at the stats and, if something needed improvement, they might ponder about it for a while. If they were closed minded, they would probably make some silly comment on a web forum about patriotism (as if that had anything to with the topic at hand)

 

[ironsides]

According to the write up:

That I can believe, some of those places are pretty desolate.

 

[damngrumpy]

Getting food in the future is going to be a severe problem if we don't manage things and
quickly. There is more and more competition for food all the time, and that is because
the once third world has a growing population of middle class people. As that happens
they will be able to afford better quality food supplies. In keeping with that China recently
put aside 175 billion dollars to buy farmland in foreign countries to be able to ship food
back to the motherland if there are shortages at home or around the world. We are
among those they will be looking to in the future, right now its South America they are
buying up.
There are a lot of problems coming our way in the very near future.

 

[ironsides]

No question, getting food in the future will be almost impossible primarily because the Earth has pretty reached the limit that it can support the human species, we are just to many. The soil has become to fragile due to all the chemicals used to increase crop yield one super bug will someday destroy some future crop and trigger mass starvation and wars especially in Africa and the Mid East maybe us also.

 

[jjaycee98]

No question, getting food in the future will be almost impossible primarily because the Earth has pretty reached the limit that it can support the human species, we are just to many. The soil has become to fragile due to all the chemicals used to increase crop yield one super bug will someday destroy some future crop and trigger mass starvation and wars especially in Africa and the Mid East maybe us also.

I am 66. As a child---maybe 10 there was a buzz going around that someday we may have to get all of our food and nutrition from a pill. Perhaps that day is at hand.

 

[ironsides]

Just like the movie "Soylent Green" Something like this just might be right around the corner.


"New York City in the year 2022 the population is over 40 million. Without enough food to feed the masses--most of it must be manufactured in local factories. The dinner choices are between Soylent Blue, Soylent Yellow, or Soylent Green. When William Simonson an executive in the Soylent Company, is found murdered, police detective Thorn is sent in to investigate the case. As he delves deeper into his investigation he uncovers another dark secret-- the heinous truth behind the real ingredients of Soylent Green."

 

[petros]

Our govt mandated that we burn food.



Think about that for a minute.

When looking at the map, it appears those with the biggest concerns are the one who live in the agricultural areas and not the densely populated eastern region.

I wonder why?

 

[ironsides]

Nothing to think about, our governments are speeding up this catastrophe. Here in the U.S. I don't think we burn the food, we just pay our farmers not to grow it. There was a time we used to give excess food to the poor, that benefit has pretty much dried up.

 

[petros]

nothing to think about, our governments are speeding up this catastrophe. Here in the u.s. I don't think we burn the food, we just pay our farmers not to grow it. There was a time we used to give excess food to the poor, that benefit has pretty much dried up.

e-85....

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[YukonJack]

A criminal amount of corn is wasted for the insane notion of turning it into ethanol.

 

[petros]

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A criminal amount of corn is wasted for the insane notion of turning it into ethanol.

Corn, wheat, rye, barley, canola, flax, peanut, soy.......

 

[JLM]

We don't really think about problems getting food in North America yet, over 13 billion people in the US have a difficult time getting good food.

U.S. maps ?food deserts.? Population: 13.5 million - Healthzone.ca

Food Desert Locator

Sounds like they had a population explosion there......................must be getting enough to eat!:smile:

Getting food in the future is going to be a severe problem if we don't manage things and
quickly. There is more and more competition for food all the time, and that is because
the once third world has a growing population of middle class people. As that happens
they will be able to afford better quality food supplies. In keeping with that China recently
put aside 175 billion dollars to buy farmland in foreign countries to be able to ship food
back to the motherland if there are shortages at home or around the world. We are
among those they will be looking to in the future, right now its South America they are
buying up.
There are a lot of problems coming our way in the very near future.

High time to impose a calorie tax, too many people sitting around getting obese at the expense of millions who are starving. :lol:

 

[petros]

China recently put aside 175 billion dollars to buy farmland in foreign countries to be able to ship food
back to the motherland if there are shortages at home or around the world.

Not just buying farmland but contracting producers directly as well.

 

[TenPenny]

Our govt mandated that we burn food.

That is one of the most disgraceful things we have done in North America.

One of the big movers in favor of ethanol plants is ADM.

It's insane to grow crops to turn into fuel that is less efficient than the oil we already have.

 

[petros]

It's a little more complex than that. The remaining fermented mash is a high protein cattle feed and eventually becomes ****, piss and methane. Unfortunately you or I don't get to eat this high end beef which all goes for export. We just get to keep taking it up the ass and fed more lies about climate change.