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To: TideGlider who wrote (437873)7/29/2011 2:25:49 PM
From: Alan Smithee  Read Replies (2) of 793908
 
So what are they going to do? Legislate that Kroger and Safeway are required to open stores in certain areas?

Mrs. Obama’s multi-million dollar anti-obesity initiative seeks to eradicate so-called food deserts. “Right now, 23.5 million Americans, including 6.5 million kids, live in what we call ‘food deserts’—these are areas without a supermarket,” Obama explained in May. “And as a result these families wind up buying their groceries at the local gas station or convenience store, places that offer few, if any, healthy options.” According to Obama, these “food deserts” lead to increased levels of obesity.
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