Andrea King Collier
Andrea Collier, a freelance journalist in Michigan, focuses on food access in urban areas and other food-related health concerns for people of color.
Our children are our future, yet this next generation is projected to be the first to have a shorter life expectancy than their parents. What if we provided children in a failed food system with the same sense of urgency as banks in a failed financial system? What if the feds worked to get the “toxic assets†of junk foods off of the ledger sheets of struggling neighborhoods? Unlike with the financial system, the investment opportunities for children are clear: quality grocery stores, urban gardens, farmers markets, and fresh and healthy school foods. The returns will far exceed financial expectations.
