....to Boz's Sequoia-sequestered but not sesquipedalian report, a sequential reply:
Seems like a good choice, in July.
Re: Ward - we've had the food deserts chat before. Nothing stuck.
Good governance is what you do when families are eating junk and it's setting them up for lifelong ill health... instead of twiddling your thumbs and waiting for everyone to become educated, informed, and in reach of a supermarket with healthy selections. Funny no one questions regulations that protect your skull from shattering in a car, but try to keep a pancreas from shattering and suddenly it's tyranny.
Diabetes rates aren't high due to heredity but primarily due to stuff like "nutrition bars" that are mostly sugars and simple carbs. Nobody's genes are designed for what's in a quick mart in a food desert. For 99% of our evolutionary history, we didn't even eat grains, let alone highly processed ones with most of the fiber removed. We're built to eat roots, shoots, fruits, nuts, eggs, fish, game....hunter/gatherer stuff.
Quik Marts are not places Americans shop for food.
Fixed it for you. You never have had much insight into the lives of others.
You could look it up. But then you’d have nothing to say.
You could look it up, Ward, but you would never report back what you found, just as you ignore the evidence about the incidence and growth of diabetes in this country.
Okey Dokey Junior.
You look it up.
Oh wait. I see you already have.
I live in DC and my area is a food desert.
However, I have a car and since the pandemic we use Instacart.
I’m extremely fortunate and I know it.
Amazing how a free market economy adapts when the government stays away.
We know from decades of of unregulated business practices what they will do in the absence of governmental oversight. They'll pollute the environment, cut corners regarding worker safety, collude to limit competition, and adopt predatory pricing practices to maximize firm profitability. And in the end they wish they were sensibly regulated as their desire to be unregulated usually ends in a financial crisis, where the want goverment to bail them out of their greed and stupidity.
Business can not regulate itself adequately. They need outside impartial regulators.
Red does not like regulations.
Red is ignorant