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what would help is a map with supermarket locations, fast food joints and income levels correlated.
then it'd make sense to debate the ordinance--which in general i support.
typically, the problem is accessibility of alternatives, availability of public transportation, etc.
in principle, this is not an issue that can be coherently reduced to yet another libertarian morality play.
it's more about the geography of class.
you know, socio-economic class, it's spatial expression and food supply.
there are a ton of studies about cities around the united states in which poorer neighborhoods do not have supermarkets, do not have bodegas, are not served by public transit but do have a shit-ton of fast food joints.
if la is like, say, parts of philadelphia have been (and may still be---my information is about 3 years old on it) the city is perfectly within its rights and obligations to act and collapsing the question back onto "choice" is superficial.
the problem is that i do not have the geographical data at hand--does someone else have actual information about this, something that goes beyond nutritional releases for chain restos?
i'll look around tonight if no-one is working with this kind of information--which is a little surprising, given how long the thread is and how pissy some of it has been.
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