The Myth of the Food Desert | Gazer Daily

Policymakers have assumed that people with good options wouldn’t make bad choices. What if access was never the real problem?

English Books The Myth of the Food Desert 食物沙漠的神话 Policymakers have assumed that people with good options wouldn’t make bad choices. What if access was never the real problem? 政策制定者一直假定，拥有良好选择的人不会做出糟糕的决定。但如果获取渠道从来就不是真正的问题呢？ By Kelefa Sanneh July 27, 2026 Illustration by Ben Wiseman Earlier this year, on Fox News, Laura Ingraham sat down with a pair of Cabinet secretaries to talk about the Trump Administration’s plans to improve the way Americans eat. Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., the Secretary of Health and Human Services, unveiled an updated, inverted food pyramid, with meat at the top and whole gr

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