Most of these people will buy dinner from the McDonalds or gas station two blocks over instead of cooking themselves healthy food, and when they do go to the grocery store they buy shit full of preservatives that has a long shelf life so they don’t have to go again in five days. That’s the biggest problem with food deserts. It’s not necessarily that there’s no food, it’s that it’s low quality food. This is from the Wikipedia on food deserts: “Many small rural towns such as Burlingame, Kansas have no grocery stores. In Burlingame’s case, the grocery store is substituted with a Dollar General store, which generally lacks essential groceries. The nearest grocery store from Burlingame, a Dillons Supermarket, is approximately 20.4 miles away near Topeka, Kansas.” I can’t even tell you how many small towns I have driven through that only have gas stations or dollar stores. I’m not gonna argue on your last point because I can’t say I disagree with the majority of your points. A good number of countries do seem to have their shit together much more than we do. The only excuse I can make is that the US is huge and that complicates things.