This source defines food deserts as "a location where there are few to no supermarkets or other retailers that offer fresh fruits and vegetables or other healthy food products" which is pretty identical throughout all of my other sources. However, their hypothesis for the emergence of these food deserts makes it stand out. The other sources do not give possible reasons for the emergence of food deserts. It says that food retailers don't place supermarkets at food deserts because those areas are typically low income residents. Healthy foods tend to be more expensive so those residents would not be able to afford buying from those supermarkets. Therefore, it would be a bad business move to have a supermarket in a food desert. This source helps me to better understand my other sources because of their hypothesis. It helps explain some of the studies done on food deserts in my other sources. I would introduce this source and use it as my main source for my research paper. It has a lot of combined information not included in my other sources.
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