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CMV: The idea of food deserts is overblown and does not deserve to be used as the first or primary argument against why obesity is more prevalent in lower SES from a macro perspective

CMV: The idea of food deserts is overblown

CMV by providing specific examples, that we can go through together on google maps

Inevitably, when the topic of obesity in lower SES comes up, food deserts is one of the first things mentioned, but why? 

6.2 % of Americans live in a food desert. With the generous assumption that most individuals living in a food desert are living in poverty, we know that 80 % of Americans living in poverty own a car, and a fair assumption is that most of that 80 % has insurance and gas money. But let's again be generous and say of that 80 %, an additional 20 % do not have access to insurance or gas money, so let's say 60 % of Americans live in poverty and own a car that they can regularly use. 

So basically only close to 1/3 of that 6.2 % of Americans that are in a food desert actually do not have access to a car with gas and would have to use terrible public transit that could take them 30 mins to 1.5 hours to reach their grocery store. Something that affects basically 2 % of Americans should not be used as the primary example of why obesity is an issue in lower SES. It makes no sense. 

When I've looked at the examples I could find online on google maps, there's usually a Walmart or Walmart equivalent usually just a 5-15 mins car ride away. 

So how to change my view? 

1. Find an example of a food desert in which it takes > 30 mins to reach a grocery store *even by car*
2. Poke holes in my logic, remember most of the assumptions I've made actually serve to actually work against my core premise

Ninja edit: forget obesity being more prevalent specifically, let's just stick to "why obesity can be an issue in lower SES"
gpt
There is one small grocery store on the Spirit Lake Nation, in North Dakota. It’s next to the casino. It really doesn’t have a lot of fruits and vegetables. If you live in the other side of the reservation it’s way more than 15 minutes. There is a Wal-Mart about 10 miles from the reservation but it’s probably 15-20 miles if you are on the opposite side of the reservation from the town of Devils Lake. Also, you’re not talking a highway from Warwick to St. Michael or Devils Lake. If it’s not snowing, if there’s no ice on the road, if you have a car and gas, you can get there in 30 minutes . When the weather is bad, double that. There is no public transportation. This is one example and Spirit Lake isn’t a very big reservation at all. Take a look at Standing Rock or the Navajo Nation for even more rural areas.