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thanks cyn--it'll take a bit of cross-mapping to make sense of this.
seriously, though, this is a class geography question and not one of motivation or its correlates in petit-bourgeois morality.
if you can't get to outlets which sell decent food, if you're stuck in a work-grind that gives you very little time to tool about and if the public transportation system is not good and there are fast-food places around that sell shitty food for cheap, then the problem is obvious and has everything to do with problems of distribution.
this is not unique to l.a.
if you think about it at a remove, that many poor urban neighborhoods around the country find themselves without grocery stores but with fast food restos, it amounts to a decision on the part of lovely lovely capitalism to abandon the well-being of these folk except insofar as they can be relieved of their cash by owners of fast-food franchises. it is an ugly reality.
an ugly market market reality.
in other contexts, a conservative might say "think of the children" but curiously that line hasn't come up here i wonder why that is.
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