The study you linked shows that some people don’t live very near to a grocery store, but it doesn’t even attempt to establish that this has significant negative effects; the paper I linked (and other similar ones), which do attempt to measure the impact of distance, generally do not support this conclusion.
The ‘Food Empowerment Project’ seem more like activists than real researchers, but even their webpage doesn’t really list any evidence that distance to grocery stores has significant negative effects. Additionally, some of it’s claims are clearly mistaken. For example:
Healthier foods are generally more expensive than unhealthful foods, particularly in food deserts. For instance, while the overall price of fruits and vegetables in the US increased by nearly 75 percent between 1989 and 2005, the price of fatty foods dropped by more than 26 percent during the same period.
Their claim is about the price levels for healthy and unhealthy foods, but the evidence they quote is about the rate of change.
I agree with the substance of your post and appreciate your taking the time to do the fact checking. I also sympathize with your potential frustration that the fact checking showe didn’t support the claim.
However, I do think your comment comes off as a bit dismissive: neither OP nor Food Empowerment Project themselves claim FEP to be “real researchers,” whatever this might mean; OP merely states FEP might have helpful resources. Furthermore, the comment might be taken to imply that being an activist and a real researcher are at odds, which I don’t believe to be the case.
The study you linked shows that some people don’t live very near to a grocery store, but it doesn’t even attempt to establish that this has significant negative effects; the paper I linked (and other similar ones), which do attempt to measure the impact of distance, generally do not support this conclusion.
The ‘Food Empowerment Project’ seem more like activists than real researchers, but even their webpage doesn’t really list any evidence that distance to grocery stores has significant negative effects. Additionally, some of it’s claims are clearly mistaken. For example:
Their claim is about the price levels for healthy and unhealthy foods, but the evidence they quote is about the rate of change.
I agree with the substance of your post and appreciate your taking the time to do the fact checking. I also sympathize with your potential frustration that the fact checking showe didn’t support the claim.
However, I do think your comment comes off as a bit dismissive: neither OP nor Food Empowerment Project themselves claim FEP to be “real researchers,” whatever this might mean; OP merely states FEP might have helpful resources. Furthermore, the comment might be taken to imply that being an activist and a real researcher are at odds, which I don’t believe to be the case.