Department of Food for every city?

In the United States, we live in a nation where hunger and obesity go hand in hand. More than 17 million US households struggle to put food on the table, and when they do, it’s often high in fat and sugar because healthy options are scarce in low-income neighborhoods. These problems are well known. They’re frequently in the news. But what’s missing from the conversation is a discussion of how they came to be. The dearth of grocery stores and other sources of fresh food in underserved communities is not a product of happenstance, but the result, in part, of poor urban and regional planning…Please click here to read Samina Raja’s story in Quartz.