Posted by zog
on August 10, 2009, 9:03 pm
The decline of the US auto industry plus the general economic meltdown over the past two years has left a major US city with a lot more hungry people then ever before. And it isn't juist the traditional homeless street people, there are more and more previously well paid auto workers who have been laid off and are past or approaching unemployment benefits checks cutoff dates and are scrambling to keep paying the bills and to feed their families.
One of the factors contributing to under nourishment and malnourishment is that the city now has no major chain super markets, they have all closed down. Residents either have to drive far to go find somewhat better food, or make do with what they can get from convenience stores.
One of the ways people are coping there is by gardening abandoned vacant lots, of which there are now...well... lots.
http://money.cnn.com/2009/08/06/news/economy/detroit_food/index.htm
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