[Jill_the_Pill]

Also the term "food desert" is already being replaced by "food apartheid," which better highlights the structures and decisions behind the phenomenon.

[zmgsabst]

How does “food apartheid” better describe the situation?

[ceejayoz]

"Desert" implies force of nature. "Apartheid" implies human action.

[zmgsabst]

How is the decision of businesses on where to have stores like “apartheid”?

[ceejayoz]

Those decisions are based heavily on the knock-on impacts of things like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redlining.

[formerkrogemp]

Fascinating. I knew of this in general but never had a term to attach to it. Thanks the link.