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Side Bar: Food Deserts
By Katharine Sherrett BATON ROUGE, La. To fill a need, volunteer food pantries have popped up in this capital city where 14 percent or 64,000 people do not have regular access to food. Last fall, the LSU Food Recovery Network partnered with African American Cultural Center, Ogden Honors College, LSU Facilities Services and Baton Rouge Community Fridge to donate over 3,000 pounds of food, according to its website. According to feedingamerica.org, one USDA-approved meal is 1
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Where Fresh Food is Far: Surviving North Baton Rouge’s Food Desert
By Ryan Chatman and Paul Tibbets with additional reporting and writing by Katharine Sherrett. BATON ROUGE, La. For North Baton Rouge residents, fresh food is far less accessible than fast food. A study from Healthy BR, a government program, showed about 14%, or 64,120 people, in the parish, faced food insecurity in 2021, which the federal government deems as living more than a mile from a large grocery store. For Southern students like Neisha Pascal, a sophomore majoring in
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