Caribbean Food Deserts & Health Crisis #shorts

Added: 2026-05-27

[00:00:00]what we experience in health and food is by design.

[00:00:04]>> So, I glad that you brought up and and I'm glad that you guys gave all the perspectives and I'm going to be vulnerable for a second, right? I'm clearly a very plus-sized dude, right?

[00:00:13]And like you talk about the food not rich in nutrients, right?

[00:00:18]Obviously, this is also a choice as well too, but it could be because there's a limit of access of subset nutrient food.

[00:00:26]I also wanted to bring that up.

[00:00:29]cuz maybe we haven't thought about it.

[00:00:31]Are we becoming a food desert?

[00:00:35]>> They said the the basket the food basket of the Caribbean is now a food desert.

[00:00:41]Like how did that system how did that system evolve? And honestly that's >> well they told us reflected poor house and I never thought I never thought about that as derogatory because what it said to me when the president came here in the early >> which president Johnson >> president that um where we outwardly may not have a lot you know we were sustaining ourselves >> and then industry was decided for us out of >> that's the stuff right there into industry we might not have been rich in in that sense feeding ourselves.

[00:01:16]>> So, I really think it's prolific that I'm here with Emmanuela and Shalana because we're talking about the intersections of education policy um and culture and cultural policy and identity. But I want to answer your question because as like a morbidly obese woman cuz that's my classification when I go to the doctor who is suffering from polycystic ovarian syndrome who is at risk for diabetes like chronic diseases that um are based on these are the non-communicable chronic diseases.

[00:01:50]So there are lifestyle diseases that you can pass genetically but also can be healed by what we eat. Um I want to say Darren that there is something to it because when you look across indigenous communities and when you look across territories, rural communities and inner cities, the obesity index one of America is great but in our communities it's greater. So it goes to their engineering also working to decline our health, right? So we do have choice but choice is built off of the policies that are around you in terms of what you have access to. It's built off of your cultural identity of what is food, how you interact with outdoors. So this when we say when I say aparthide it's not this light like it's it's it's about how we have been separated from the legacy of having people who are centennials because they were eating food from this All right.