I've heard this term a couple of time but never actually looked into it, and it is such an alien concept to me right now. I apologise in advance for sounding dumb here.

I can understand slums and favelas having a harder time getting access to fresh food, but how come entire government-recognised and incorporated neighbourhoods with electricity, water and all those more complex services can't have small grocery stores for basic healthy things like rice?

  • Doubledee [comrade/them]
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    10 months ago

    Are you outside of the US? It might be hard to explain, I used to deliver post to a rural American 'town', they had folks who sold chicken eggs by putting them in a cooler by the highway with a box, you could leave money in the box and take eggs. I never saw anyone do this. There was no centralized location to sell produce in this 'town' so I assume you either ate it or threw it away. Many American rural areas have no infrastructure to facilitate community gatherings or farmer's markets.