Number of no-car American households more than a mile from a grocery store: 2.3 million
Percentage of “mom and pop” grocery stores compared with supermarkets in 1950: 50
Percentage today: 17
Number of total months since 2006 that “Food Justice” received
more Google searches than “Justice League of America”: 14
Number of people served per supermarket in Washington, D.C.’s
poorer neighborhoods: 70,000
Number of people served per supermarket in Washington, D.C.’s
wealthier neighborhoods: 11,881
Percentage of Americans’ total grocery budget spent at Wal-Mart: 25
Percentage of Wal-Mart’s 2012 sales from groceries: 55
Percentage increase in the price of fresh food since 1980: 40
Percentage decrease in the price of soda and processed food since 1980: 10-30
Number of views of Super Sprowtz top rap music video
“All the Veggie Ladies”: 27,378
Cost of a pound of potato chips relative to a pound of potatoes: 200x
Percentage of deaths worldwide from low fruit and vegetable consumption: 2.8
Percentage of deaths from car accidents: 1.9
The farthest away you can get from a McDonald’s in the United States: 107 miles
Greatest distance that 90 percent of Americans live from a Wal-Mart: 15 miles
Increase in number of children who selected apples over french fries
after seeing pictures of Batman: 6x
Percentage increase in food budget for low-income households due to
convenience store markups and lack of access to grocery stores: 37
Estimated percentage increase in fresh fruit and vegetable consumption
with the opening of each new grocery store: 32
Estimated percentage ROI in fresh produce on every $1 invested in an urban garden: 600
Weekly price of a CSA share with Growing Power in Milwaukee
for a family of four: $16
Number of Big Macs you can buy for $16: 3.5
Cost to harvest food from Seattle’s new public food forest: $0
