Fordham Urban Law Journal Volume 45 Number 4 Taking a Bite out of the Big Apple: A Article 5 Conversation About Urban Food Policy (Colloquium) 2018 Let Them Eat Kale: The iM splaced Narrative of Food Access Nathan A. Rosenberg Nevin Cohen Follow this and additional works at: https://ir.lawnet.fordham.edu/ulj Recommended Citation Nathan A. Rosenberg and Nevin Cohen, Let Them Eat Kale: The Misplaced Narrative of Food Access, 45 Fordham Urb. L.J. 1091 (2018). Available at: https://ir.lawnet.fordham.edu/ulj/vol45/iss4/5 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by FLASH: The orF dham Law Archive of Scholarship and History. It has been accepted for inclusion in Fordham Urban Law Journal by an authorized editor of FLASH: The orF dham Law Archive of Scholarship and History. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. LET THEM EAT KALE: THE MISPLACED NARRATIVE OF FOOD ACCESS Nathan A. Rosenberg* & Nevin Cohen** Introduction ........................................................................................... 1092 I. The Food Access Narrative ........................................................... 1093 A. Third Way Politics and Food Access ................................ 1094 B. The Emergence of Food Access in the United States .... 1097 C. Municipal Politics and Food Access ................................. 1099 D. Food Access and the “Obesity Epidemic” ....................... 1100 II. Food Access Policies ..................................................................... 1101 A. The Retail Initiative ............................................................ 1102 B. State and Local Fresh Food Financing Initiatives ........... 1102 C. Federal Healthy Food Financing Initiative ...................... 1103 D. Advocacy, Philanthropic, and Research Support ............ 1103 III. Limitations of Retail Food Access Policies .............................. 1106 IV. The Persistence of Retail Food Access Policies ....................... 1108 A. Self-Promotion by Food Retailers ...................................