Thursday, June 16, 2016

Rural food deserts

So much attention gets paid to urban core food deserts, but this series from Utah Public Radio points up the tragedy of a broken food system on the Navajo reservation.

http://upr.org/post/planting-seeds-health-navajo-nation

Check out both segments of the story.

One thing I didn't see here: to what extent did the former commodity food program contribute to the breakdown of old ways of producing food?

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