Will Philadelphia’s experiment in eradicating ‘food deserts’ work?
Philadelphia, which boasts the poorest citizens of any of the top 10 cities, is fixing to spend a big chunk of $27M of other people's money to provide convenience stores with free refridgerators and subsidized fruit and vegetables. And the proprietors are taking the money to go bananas even if they can hardly give them away.
Combine this with NYC's insane prohibition on salt, soda and transfats (so far) and how far are we really from making citizens buy brocolli?
Philadelphia, which boasts the poorest citizens of any of the top 10 cities, is fixing to spend a big chunk of $27M of other people's money to provide convenience stores with free refridgerators and subsidized fruit and vegetables. And the proprietors are taking the money to go bananas even if they can hardly give them away.
Combine this with NYC's insane prohibition on salt, soda and transfats (so far) and how far are we really from making citizens buy brocolli?
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