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A Way Out Of Food Racism And Poverty with Karen Washington

Aug 26, 2020 · 1h 8m

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A Way Out Of Food Racism And Poverty | This episode is brought to you by ButcherBox and Bioptimizers Food is a way to empower people and create change. It’s time for us to use it as a tool for changing racial injustice and helping Black, Brown, and low-income communities achieve better health, economic opportunities, and even generational legacies in the form of land ownership. Many of us have heard the term “food desert” as a way to describe places where fresh, healthy food is not accessible within a certain distance. On this episode of The Doctor’s Farmacy, my guest, Karen Washington, takes this concept to a greater level with her coining of the phrase “food apartheid,” to really portray…