Tuesday, February 26, 2008

There's (always) more to it

Recently I posted suggesting we improve the foods available in poorer neighborhoods. Apparently, there's more involved than just making it available. In fact, the introduction of produce stands in a bunch of neighborhoods with obesity problems has been met with lots of (understandable) uproar.

I am endlessly fascinated by how the complexity of our societies makes change difficult -- or even just makes things difficult to undo.

1 comment:

Bisous said...

I agree wholeheartedly! When I was writing my senior thesis on obesity politics, it always struck me how strongly class and obesity are correlated. The lack of fresh produce in poor neighborhoods is really a problem and to make matters worse, the price of said produce is so much higher than that of manufactured shit. Long live America.