the Invisible Wall; Social Constrains Prevent People from Accessing Healthy Food

The most interesting piece I came across while researching for my literature review was about an invisible wall that prevents people from low-income minorities’ neighborhoods to go to the grocery store in the rich neighborhood –minding that the store is very close from their neighborhood.[1] This point came back while I was reading Food politics by Marion Nestle, she states that society implements superficial classes and titles on people which end being used by all of the population to identify each other. That creates generation of stigmatized communities that believe in the identity the society gave them and their parents before them. Even when the debate[2] came to the fact access to healthy food is choice people make; it actually became unwilling participant that supports the point Nestle make. People don’t buy healthy food because of the endless planting of social differences and how each group should act.

The issue gets amplified when you apply economical and geographical constraints to the classified groups and that doubles the effect of social ruling. Especially when it comes to corporations that encourages consumption, in this case processed, junk food consumption. Being at the top with money, they advocate in low income neighborhoods for their products instead of the higher income neighborhoods. They actually add to the cycle of having food deserts and actually creating them at the same time. With more junk food in poor neighborhoods it becomes easier to buy it since it's cheap. since this started in the early mid 80's early 90's new wave of children grew up knowing only fast food and non healthy consumption -becoming socially acceptable and trade mark to low income. 

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[1] I can’t remember the article. I couldn't include it since it's not scholarly resource.

[2] Counter debates to my main research where it says people actually have access and resources but they don’t want to take the healthy choice.