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There are food deserts in the USA, where you literally can't buy high quality food like vegetables in a large area, and have to resort to only eating the highly processed and highly unhealthy food. These food deserts usually are located in the poorer neighbourhoods.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_desert

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Which supermarket chains in the US do not provide vegetables, fruit, meat and only offer processed food? Please find us a 'food desert' where there are no supermarkets nearby.

This is a myth that's easily refuted. There's an argument to be made that poorer people aren't educated on healthy food choices but the idea that they don't have access to anything but processed food is just silly.

Food deserts mostly myth. I'm looking for the study in my notes but there is only a very slight difference in diets between tax brackets.

Food deserts are a big problem. Most of the urban food deserts developed after major riots burned down existing grocery stores in the late 60s (and then again in the 80s in LA).

New food deserts now exist in Minneapolis (and likely other cities as well) after the recent rioting and burning there:

https://www.startribune.com/minneapolis-longfellow-neighborh...

https://www.marketplace.org/2020/06/04/neighborhoods-where-s...

Ironically, in the most recent riots, many - perhaps most - of the destructive rioters were middle-class "activist" kids who don't have to live with the results of their actions.

TIL, thank you!

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