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  • Ezze [hy/hym,they/them]
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    4 years ago

    There was a show where Jaimie Oliver went into people's homes in the US and criticized them for eating frozen food. As if they had the labor available to cook a full meal for 5 people, and the access to fresh fruits, vegetables, and proteins.

    • SteamedHamberder [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      At first I read that as "John Oliver," which would have been awkwardly hilarious...

      In all seriousness though- for most vegetables, nutritional quality isn't diminished by the freezing process, and cooking from frozen decreases food waste. Frozen vegetables also are made up of the produce that's too ugly to sell fresh, so where would those go in the absence of a market for frozen foods?

    • Smoggywhotter [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      Areas with higher levels of poverty are more likely to be food deserts, but for other factors, such as vehicle availability and use of public transportation, the association with food desert status varies across very dense urban areas, less dense urban areas, and rural areas.

      Areas with higher poverty rates are more likely to be food deserts regard- less of rural or urban designation. This result is especially true in very dense urban areas where other population characteristics such as racial composition and unemployment rates are not predictors of food desert status because they tend to be similar across tracts.

      In all but very dense urban areas, the higher the percentage of minority population, the more likely the area is to be a food desert.

      Residents in the Northeast are less likely to live far from a store than their counterparts in other regions of the country with similar income levels.

      https://www.ers.usda.gov/webdocs/publications/45014/30940_err140.pdf

      Jamie Oliver is a lib