Food Deserts
March 2nd, 2015 by Mike Vasilinda
Food deserts are defined as urban neighborhoods and rural towns without ready access to fresh, healthy, and affordable food. Today, the Senate Agriculture Committee in Tallahassee approved giving grocery businesses located in low income areas tax breaks of two thousand dollars or more if they stock healthy produce. State Senator Dwight Bullard offered the bill because he says even those with less money need to eat healthy.
“We want to be able to have some sort of grocery or vegetable option somewhere within ten or fifteen minutes of where they live, by foot, and we’re not seeing that in a lot of places, In rural communities naturally they area expands, but we still want something where they don’t have to drive 20, or 30 or 45 minutes away from home just to go to a good grocery store” says the Miami Democrat.
Only stores with sales of 15 million or less can qualify for the tax break.
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