Prior to beginning work on this discussion forum, read the article Neighborhood Disparities in Access to Healthy Foods and Their Effects on Environmental Justice, watch Mississippi “Food Deserts” Fuel Obesity Epidemic (Links to an external site.), and consider reviewing a recommended resource. Assume that your town is a food desert and you would like to do something about it. Prepare an argument to present to your local town council that outlines an idea to offer healthy food options to your town. Use at least one ethical theory or perspective to support the moral or ethical reasoning for why this program should be implemented.

Your initial post should be at least 250 words in length. Support your claims with examples from the required resources and/or scholarly sources, and properly cite any references in APA Style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center resources Introduction to APA (Links to an external site.) and Integrating Research (Links to an external site.).

Guided Response: Think about what the concept of social justice means within the context of food security. Are human beings entitled to nutritious food? Consider how human beings are affected by the systemic inability to access quality food. Respond to at least two of your classmates’ posts by Day 7