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I take offense at the

Submitted by Trisha on December 14, 2007 - 07:27.

I take offense at the commenters who are so quick to point out that they can find cheap, fresh produce easily at their local ethnic markets and tell us to just do the same. We live in the south-central US where most of the local supermarkets exist inside WalMarts - in most of the United States, especially rural and suburban areas, there are no ethnic markets to get cheap produce. We have farm stands for a few months out of the year, but you can't live on tomatoes and strawberries.

Here is an excellent article in Newsweek about the difficulties finding healthy food in so-called Food Deserts:

http://www.newsweek.com/id/76929

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