Diane Sawyer's report about the American Indian reservation whose main source of fresh veggies is, supposedly, a Subway restaurant pretty much confirms two things:
1. Subway really is everywhere. (They recently surpassed McDonald's for number of locations.)
2. Private industry will solve the problem of 'food deserts' better than Big Government will.
I'm still suspicious about the whole concept of a food desert--it strikes me as an easy excuse for why certain areas have such an obesity problem and why government must step in to solve it.
That said, it seems more plausible to me that a food desert could exist on a reservation than in an urban area. Reservations just seem more ... deserted. But they have a lot of open land on them ... the residents could plant some fruit and veggie gardens, right?
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