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Market Questions
The readings discuss how housewives benefited from the accessibility of the pushcarts. After there were regulations on pushcarts, many people were unhappy because they had to travel some distance to buy food. Would most people today prefer to buy groceries and other items from a supermarket, a small grocery store, a farmer’s market, or another kind of marketplace? What are some factors that would influence their preference? How would their preference affect the community?
Discussion Questions: 4-1-14
In the reading for Food Riots during 1917 a majority of the protestors were women and their daughter against peddlers and male police enforcers. Could this have affect the little action taken in creating greater more direct reforms for bettering food prices? Women had little rights at this time especially the poor working class, was the issue of food price rise less attended to because of this circumstance?
The reading also mentioned how this was before world war one and nationalist and patriotic emotions were high at this time labeling protestors as alleged german allies or socialist. Did this contribute to little attention being paid to these groups.
In the Markets reading markets viewed peddlers as overcrowding cities and lower business value when in reality they helped markets. In present day do street carts still contribute to help the value of a neighborhood market and businesses near by? Do they help immigrants in the same why they once did in providing a stable income and affordable produce or is that outdated?
Questions on Market Readings
When reading about these push carts and the peddlers, I kept thinking of the halal carts, like the ones we have right outside of our college. Although they’re not such a problem here, they can be a problem in a place like the East Village, which is very close to the lower east side. In fact, here’s an article about how people in East Village don’t like the then newly arrived Halal cart -http://nypost.com/2013/12/29/east-villagers-bash-new-halal-food-cart/. To sum up their complaints, the cart smells bad, makes noise both by attracting people and with its generator, is dirty, can cause people to crowd up the block, and because of all of this, devalues the homes. The readings talked about how officials wanted to get rid of the pushcarts because they crowded and noise-polluted the streets, made the area look more ethnic then they wanted, and took business away from merchants. Today we have halal carts, waffle trucks, roasted peanut stands, etc. I know that these people have to get permission from the government, but under what conditions do you think the government would be justified in getting rid of these carts and trucks? In other words, in what cases and under what circumstances are these entities hurting the neighborhood as opposed to helping it?
Question on the Reading
Do knowledgeable people who understand science and brought up under Ayurveda believe it works equally? If so under the same system as western science or under a separate system?
Latina Obesity in the United States
I have a few questions, so I’ll just say all of them.
1) Is the best solution to fixing obesity among Latinos to educate them more or to change government policies?
People get fat because fatty foods are so cheap, like 1 dollar burgers at McDonald’s, and any rules that try to fix that will be inherently opposing free market principles. When Bloomberg tried to limit how much soda we could buy, he came under attack and was ridiculed, but anything else done to make people eat less would be the same idea and come under scrutiny.
2) What changes in policy can stop the trend in obesity, or curtail it? Or, should the government just stay out of it?
3) Does the obesity among Latinos change depending on where they live, and who they live around?
