Friday, April 27, 2012

Someone Get Rahm a Newspaper

Evidently, he's not up on current events. And neither is Fran Spielman if she keeps printing crap like this:
  • Five new farmers markets will open in Chicago neighborhoods starved for fresh fruits and vegetables, providing a summer oasis in the food desert.

    Mayor Rahm Emanuel has summoned the CEOs of Wal-Mart and other major retailers to a summit on “food deserts” that, he claims, produced plans to build 17 new stores and retrofit 19 existing stores to sell fresh produce in inner-city neighborhoods.

    He has also promoted urban agriculture — by championing an ordinance that expanded the maximum size of community gardens, eased fencing and parking requirements on larger commercial urban farms and allowed those farms to sell their wares at farmer’s markets.

    The five new farmers markets mark yet another step to fill the void that has left inner-city communities with precious few shopping choices.

Ah yes, an "oasis" to combat "food deserts." But what's this that the bastion of liberal group-think published not even ten days ago?

  • It has become an article of faith among some policy makers and advocates, including Michelle Obama, that poor urban neighborhoods are food deserts, bereft of fresh fruits and vegetables.

    But two new studies have found something unexpected. Such neighborhoods not only have more fast food restaurants and convenience stores than more affluent ones, but more grocery stores, supermarkets and full-service restaurants, too. And there is no relationship between the type of food being sold in a neighborhood and obesity among its children and adolescents.

    Within a couple of miles of almost any urban neighborhood, “you can get basically any type of food,” said Roland Sturm of the RAND Corporation, lead author of one of the studies. “Maybe we should call it a food swamp rather than a desert,” he said.

Go read the entire article if you can stomach the New York Times. It pretty much states that the "food desert" is a myth and obesity results from poor food choices, not a lack of available healthy foods.

Rahm and Fran really ought to read the Times. It provides all the liberal talking points on a nearly daily basis.

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Anonymous Anonymous said...

I recall walking into more than a few ghetto markets and the "produce" section was completely empty. The owners weren't withholding produce, there just wasn't any demand. If you opened a store with nothing but healthy food and fresh fruits/vegetables in the hood it would be out of business by the end of the month.

4/27/2012 12:32:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Community gardens??? In the 'hood???!!! Yeah, right. They have them all over....they're called vacant lots. They can't even keep the garbage out of them, let alone grow something in them. And if they did end up growing something in a community garden, you know some little punks would destroy them, take the items and throw them, or someone would come and steal whatever did grow.

4/27/2012 12:37:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I'd rather have a 40oz O.E. & a jumbo bag of hot skins anyday ! Who eats apples, grapes, etc, etc.....

It was good enough for mamma, it's good enough for me. Who washed my XXXXL spandex shorts in hot water again, they don't fit anymore !!!

4/27/2012 01:03:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I'll believe there is an actual food desert somewhere when I see the weight of most people under 300 lbs

4/27/2012 02:11:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

The Racoon has a great diet plan. His new Speed Cameras will fuck so many drivers out of their money they won't have much left to buy groceries or patronize the fast food restaurants. Less money = Less food = Loss of weight. See there is a method to the Madness!

4/27/2012 02:16:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Seriously? Now it's our fault they are fat too? Well, I guess that's what happens when you get everything for free, don't have to work and can blame everyone else for you troubles.
What a joke! Fuck Obama!

4/27/2012 06:11:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

"poor urban neighborhoods are food deserts, bereft of fresh fruits and vegetables."

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what about funions? they got funions?

4/27/2012 07:19:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I'm opening a flammin' hot Cheetoh's and grape pop stand in the ghetto. Watch out Warren Buffet here I come.

4/27/2012 07:21:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Cheetos, hot chips, chilli cheese fries, chilli cheese nachos, honey buns and pickles in a bag... The ghetto diet

4/27/2012 07:34:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

FDA wants to ban private gardens to stem the wave of food poisonings and e-coli attacks. Hows that going to affect Rambo? good luck.

4/27/2012 08:07:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

What, no Farmer's Market for North Lawndale ? Even that CTA bus that was converted to a fruits and vegetables truck doesn't come around anymore. The former Dominicks's that was at Roosevelt & Kedzie closed because it sold healthy foods but the reidents were not with it, they wanted the type of junk sold at Moo & Oink.
Now Moo and & Oink is history and it's replacement, Andy's Deli (don't let the name fool you, it is an outlet for the same junk that Moo & Oink sold) is out of the way and difficult to find if you don't know how to get there. And Leamington Foods, I would not buy food for my dog and kitty cat from them.

4/27/2012 08:49:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Food deserts. Is that anything like the Toddlers hospital deserts from a couple years ago?

4/27/2012 09:23:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Fresh potato, processed, deep fried and put in a plastic bag. Once opened and consumed, empty bag thrown to the ground, to be picked up by a city worker (soon to be privatized). There you have it, fresh produce, ghetto recycling, and creation of jobs.

4/27/2012 09:27:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

"Five new farmers markets will open in Chicago neighborhoods starved for fresh fruits and vegetables, providing a summer oasis in the food desert."

Aside from the fact that none of the shouting, jiggling, morbidly obese people I see are "starved" for anything except maybe brain cells...

I dunno about that "will open" business.

Hey, peaceful Mennonite farmers driving in here from Indiana. It's safe to sell your stuff at the market in Western Springs, say. It is NOT safe on the South or West sides of Chicago.

It's not your job to truck in produce for people who don't want it anyway. It's not worth it if you get killed, beaten, raped, or robbed.

Grape soda and red-hot Chee-tos grow in every liquor store here. Don't worry about it.

Stay safe. Stay away.

4/27/2012 09:29:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

"Who washed my XXXXL spandex shorts in hot water again, they don't fit anymore !!!"

--4/27/2012 01:03:00 AM

Oh Lord. Oh Lord. Devil made dese front steps, I can't get up 'em no mo. >huff< >puff<

Call a bambulance. I got asthma. I got that sugar diabetes again. >puff<

Gimme one yo Kool.

We are caught in a descending spiral -- and that's just on days.

4/27/2012 09:35:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

When I was in Iraq i saw these skinny sheep-herders everywhere, one guy on foot with 8-10 sheep easily 70miles from any source of water or food who camped out at night using sheep dung to stay warm---that is a food desert! those people thought the Americans were huge because we actually ate on a regular basis, so compared to them we were. it's no ones fault but the consumers that these stores sell out of red hots and grape soda by noon but can't sell an apple for the life of them... besides i kinda like the smell of fried chicken while i work

4/27/2012 09:50:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Stop allowing them to purchase crap with link cards...then, we'll see water in your desert.

4/27/2012 09:55:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I read this blog from time to time to get inside information on what is going on in CPD. This item I feel compelled to write about since it concerns something I feel comfortable writing about. There are filthy stories in the inner city that sell spoiled food to its customers. FACT. Also Jewel and Dominicks use a different marking tool in each neighborhood. FACT. In my opinion, the farmers markets should allow the use of the LINK cards because that would open up competition (free markets) and force the area stores to either compete or get out of the areas. You do not see these filthy stores in Lincoln Park or River North. Fortunately for me and my family I make enough and was able to move. Others do not have that choice. They have to deal with the substandard grocery choices.

4/27/2012 09:57:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Did he say desert or dessert?
I smell a TIF or at least some Community Redevelopment Action $$'s for some Rev's.

4/27/2012 09:59:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

If Rahm is so worried about food deserts, why doesn't he stop courting Wally World long enough to ensure that Pete's Fresh Market--a Chicago-owned business--can get the permits it needs to finally build the store at Western and Madison? The city has been holding up construction for a year.

It's taken so long that Walgreen's has started stocking produce!

As for community gardens, may of the lots would require environmental remediation before any kind of food could safely be grown.

Once again, Rahmbo is more worried about greasing the palms of some future donor for his upcoming preseidential bid to actually think about what the people of Chicago might want or need!

4/27/2012 10:19:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Went to purchase a cup o coffee at the local 7-11 the other day at work and a family of 4's was checking out with the 3 small children and 1 on the way they had. 3 slurpees 1 bag of potato chips and a 2-ltr of sprite. How do you think they payed for it???? If you guessed LINK CARD you are correct.. Thanks for your hard earned tax money to pay for the link system and Yes the Mother and father were not legal in the USA based on the I'D they had in their hands.. remember folks no profiling either.

4/27/2012 10:55:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I was in the grocery store last friday doing weekly shopping and I saw this woman with 3 carts filled with food, all processed garbage, chips, kraft mac and cheese and that sorta crap.
Not one fucking green leafy vegetable NONE in 3 carts! The store had plenty of fresh vegetables. She was about 240 pounds, her hair was "done" and her nails "did" but her child looked like he just woke up from sleeping in his clothes. Of course when she checked out she used her platinum LINK CARD! While talking on her iPhone!
There isn't any fucking food desert? It's a brain desert! These people are making bad choices and that's that!

4/27/2012 11:07:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

There used to be this bs community garden at 51 and Calumet, now its bums galore with 40ozers and dice games for local bustouts

4/27/2012 12:00:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Nothing and I mean nothing beats a good ole brown bag of slop with pump cheese.

4/27/2012 12:11:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Jesus you people criticize others for believing anything but then claim this article is the end all be all on food deserts? I live in a shitty part of Uptown. But it's easy to get to stores w decent selection. I visit my father on the southside (63rd & cottage grove) every week. Good luck finding anything other than hot cheetos down there. FOOD DESERTS EXIST. Look around.

4/27/2012 12:39:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Thanks a lot, SCC. You just blew the food desert thing out of the water costing politicians and their pals tax money contracts to study and address the problem.

Next you're going to tell me that global warming, I mean climate change since it's getting colder, is not real.

4/27/2012 01:06:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

"Community gardens??? In the 'hood???!!! Yeah, right. They have them all over....they're called vacant lots. They can't even keep the garbage out of them, let alone grow something in them...."

--4/27/2012 12:37:00 AM

"It takes a village."

*

4/27/2012 03:05:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Headlines in 2 years.

" Of the heralded stores that opened in food deserts 90% have closed as due to bad business and the other 10% are in the red, in unrelated news the fast food restraunts are still booming".

4/27/2012 03:33:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

No shortage of Flamin' Hots and Purple Pop.
I also noticed I can't get a marble rye or a cinnamon babka south of Diversey Ave anymore.

4/27/2012 06:35:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

try finding a "full service" resturant in Englewood, Gresham, North Lawndale, Roseland, or even Chatham. Very few if any.

4/27/2012 09:46:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Are those new farmers markets going to be able to accept the currency of those food deserts, the Link Card?

4/28/2012 02:14:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

There are food deserts because there's no demand you lib idiots!

You can lead a horse to water but you can't make him drink.

There's no full service restaurants in the hood because the cost of security, insurance, overhead, etc is so damned high due to it being in a shit neighborhood. If you don't like it, there's an easy solution....LEAVE!

4/28/2012 03:03:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Anonymous said...
Cheetos, hot chips, chilli cheese fries, chilli cheese nachos, honey buns and pickles in a bag... The ghetto diet

4/27/2012 07:34:00 AM

Don't forget the special plants that will grow Ho Ho's and Ding Dongs!!!

4/28/2012 05:52:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Anonymous said...
"Community gardens??? In the 'hood???!!! Yeah, right. They have them all over....they're called vacant lots. They can't even keep the garbage out of them, let alone grow something in them...."

--4/27/2012 12:37:00 AM


Yeah, nothin' like seeing urban tumbleweed plastic bags growin' and blowin' in the lot!!!

4/28/2012 05:55:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Cop in the Hood does a pretty good job of taking apart that food desert study as bullshit.

http://www.copinthehood.com/2012/04/food-deserts-quantitative-research-at.html

4/29/2012 02:22:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Anonymous said...
Stop allowing them to purchase crap with link cards...then, we'll see water in your desert.

4/27/2012 09:

Agree 10000000%!!! You live on the public dime, you buy what you are limited to. Don't like, don't use the fuckin caed!!! This was tried along with drug testing and got shot down as a violation of some sort of rights!!! MY ASS!!!! Just like a DL, it's not a RIGHT to have a link card and free housing!!!

4/29/2012 04:18:00 PM  

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