'Food Justice' Is Now A Thing
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Genius: disguise upselling as social justice.
Proving once again that social justice is nothing but racism with a dash of sexism in disguise.
Pretty sure I already know who they're going to blame when their overpriced hipster specialty store in a low-income area fails.
My brother recently restarted my dad's business as minority owner.
The majority owner? Our mom.
Literally playing the system so he can get special low interest loans and grants.
It was her idea, because she said "if the systems going to be biased we should at least play it to our advantage"
Good for them. Everyone should take back as much of their stolen tax money as they'll let you.
When UBI comes down from on high, no one will be able to afford NOT to enroll.
Stop there, and I'd have nothing but praise for this. Helping low income community get affordable, healthy food is a good thing. Supporting local businesses is a good thing. Pitting those local businesses against each other along racial lines is a cancer that rots the community you claim to be serving.
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Food justice is a stupid term. The term food deserts is better.
If they come after my food I am declaring total war.
So it's a supermarket. That sounds like they're opening a supermarket.
no, it isn't.
I only buy coffee harvested by little brown people.
Fortunately that doesn't limit it much. (who can afford Jamaica Blue Mountain anyway?)
If there was genetically engineered coffee that could grow in Canada, I'd buy it.
Coffee could probably grow in Okanogan Valley and central British Columbia. It wouldn't take too much work to make a cold tolerant cultivar, honestly. Call it ice coffee.
I really don't see much in the way of issues here. Sure, the "we must preferentially buy from and then flag products from non-white-male farms" is cringy, but for the most part the idea here is good.
First, I will commend these two for putting their money where their mouths are (assuming this is actually going to be in a poorer neighborhood) - they're actually doing something with their own time and money and effort instead of just demanding other people make all the changes themselves.
Second, it is a fact that a lot of poorer neighborhoods are sorely lacking in places to buy healthy, high-qualify food, I'm generally a fan of supporting smaller, more locally owned businesses than just shoveling money to larger companies, and most people (regardless of race or financial status) do not know how to cook healthy meals these days (though, admittedly, there's better ways to do that than just saying "add an onion to your ramen").
On top of that, opening new businesses in poorer neighborhoods does give more people there jobs, and thus more income, and thus less poverty. (Though if this is a 700-square-foot store, I'm not sure how many people they will be hiring)
Of course, there is a larger problem with what they are trying to do, and that is failure to understand why poorer neighborhoods are often lacking in decent grocery stores. It is because the people are poorer, less educated (or care less) about food choices and that poorer neighborhoods also have a lot more crime. The article flat out says prices are higher than other grocery stores (at least for the meat), and someone struggling to make ends meet is not going to care if the beef they're getting is from an organic, grass-fed, free-range cow. They want cheap meat. Same goes for the type of products - while picking up and making rice and beans is cheaper and healthier, most people are probably going to go for the pasta and cookies instead I imagine. And lets hope they have lots of plywood to put up in the windows before the next BLM "rally" comes through.
I do hope they succeed, because people putting money into and setting up businesses in poorer neighborhoods is the only realistic way to improve those neighborhoods. That said, while I'd like to be wrong I really only foresee two likely outcomes given how they describe it. Outcome 1, it just goes under due to not attracting a large enough customer base to stay profitable. Outcome 2, it becomes a hipster grocery store where a bunch of (upper) middle class white people go so they can get locally sourced foods and break their arms patting themselves on the back for helping support an under-served population which never actually comes into the store.
Brian McVicar is trying to fuck Alita Kelly.
When will it end