Food Deserts
Clip: 7/16/2009 | 5m 45s
Areas lacking access to healthy food.
We have an update to a story we brought you a few years ago concerning so-called "food deserts" in Chicago -- areas that lack access to grocery stores and healthy food. Christian Farr talks with people who are fighting to make these "deserts" disappear.
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Food Deserts
Clip: 7/16/2009 | 5m 45s
We have an update to a story we brought you a few years ago concerning so-called "food deserts" in Chicago -- areas that lack access to grocery stores and healthy food. Christian Farr talks with people who are fighting to make these "deserts" disappear.
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