“People think that healthy food is a privilege. I just think that’s horse****. It’s wrong. There isn’t more food accessibility efforts because people feel like the low-income populations should work harder for it, and that’s a terrible mentality.
When I worked in Indianapolis at a low-income inner-city school, food accessibility was a huge thing. Kids would come and they wouldn’t have eaten anything. Like, how am I supposed to expect them to perform well on this test if they haven’t had anything decent to eat in three years? That’s the situation anywhere, if there’s not a farmstand or a healthy full-service grocery store nearby, a lot of people do not have the time and resources to go out of their way. I want to do more about that - I think it’s a dumb idea that people should work harder just to get food. If they cannot make it to the co-op then the co-op needs to be going to them.”
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