Accessibility to healthy food, the means and ability to store and prepare healthy food becomes of real value to the community as a whole, local neighbourhoods and those far flung throughout the globe. This value is to our nutritional status and thus our general health, with positive results, I suspect, on the many budgets our government’s have developed.
Accessibility is so very different for everyone in the economic strata throughout the world. And not only economics, but in wellness, age and gender. Rules and regulations, laws and societal norms create barriers and boundaries strung like innumerable cat's cradles throughout neighbourhoods, provinces, states, countries and globally for each of these classes.
Accessibility to healthy food, besides grocery stores, finances and housing may also mean growing our own or buying locally whenever and if possible.
However, for those of us that have housing and a salary, what foods are actually accessible within our own homes? What do we have within our reach? What’s in the cupboard? We are very fortunate to have fruits, nuts and so many foods from outside of Canada available to us, provided by farmers in other countries. Not to mention the grains and fruits our own farmers grow; dairy and meats that ranchers produce for our consumption.
“Accessible design is good design.””
~ Steve Ballmer
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