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The Poor Get Diabetes, the Rich Get Local and Organic


Health & Wellness  (tags: organic, local, fresh, rich, poor, unhealthy, low-income, expensive, food, groceries, foodbanks, soup kitchens, healthy, natural, farmer's markets, war on poverty, diet, dietary )

Cris
- 690 days ago - alternet.org
At about the same time that Berkeley diva Alice Waters was first showing us how to bestow style and grace on something as ordinary as a local tomato, the Reagan administration's anti-poor policies were driving people into soup kitchens...
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Jaime Dough (63)
Monday March 17, 2008, 7:34 am
I was out of work for 2 years and lived out of my car. I developed diabetes at the time.
 
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