Well a food desert can have a corner store where you can get snacks chips and cola and stuff but no supermarket.
by Sexydimma February 13, 2022
Liberal newspeak term to paint America as a bad place keeping inner city people down. Food Desert refers the lack of fresh fruits and vegetables at every tiny convenience store.
Jamal lives in a food desert and must live on two dollar butterfingers, chips and two dollar Nehi purchased from the Korean store owner. Otherwise Jamal would have to walk, bus or bike a three miles once a week for real food and he ain't got time for that shit. Besides, Jamal likes Butterfingers and said you can shove that arugula.
I told the Ethiopians we have food deserts in Baltimore so stop your whining.
I told the Ethiopians we have food deserts in Baltimore so stop your whining.
by Jeremiah A. Wright Jr. December 21, 2011
whereas just "food desert" is currently considered (more from public health perspective) as places where the local populations do not have (convenient) access to affordable, healthy food, this more wholistic concept is a less human-centric understanding that implies both, a low, non-proportionate amount of food grown, and dependency on (usually both environmentally unsustainable and imbalanced fossil fuel energies and farm land stewardship) less-/unnatural imports of food from "non-renewable" or less lively (e.g. degraded/depleted top soils and watersheds) source farms
After being affected by the spirit of "deep ecology", I had a fresher awareness of the ironic, or at least unnatural, situation of how the grocery stores, markets, restaurants, etc. made it appear like there's an abundance of food, but our less- or unhealthy human-built environment that had me dependent on unsustainable, imbalanced energies (like fossil fuels and their corresponding implements) actually was an ecological food desert.
by kikibo22 July 12, 2019