If there was demand for good food people would open shops selling it. It happens all the time in Europe, you see poor people open cheap shops selling basic food in poor areas.
The key difference is population density. There is a demand, but its too low to be sustainable.
And by the way, you have food deserts in europe (Alps, Balkans). I've never been to Estern Europe but a friend of mine is selling mercs (security detail to be exact) there and i souldn't be surprise if some food desert existed between Crimea and Oural from what i'm told.
Small productor market and product are politically tainted too, so a small percentage of the population won't ever come in. And health shouldn't be about politics.
> If there was demand for good food people would open shops selling it.
Markets aren't perfect, contrary to popular belief on HN and other discussion boards. And even if something eventually shows up, it's not going to show up overnight. It still takes capital to pull off, which the locals almost universally lacked (racism is a hell of a thing in the US South) and outsiders have to decide it's worth the gamble for very little gain. How many people want to open a grocery store where 90% of your customers are on food stamps, and if they open it how well stocked will it be? (Based on the one grocery store we had, very poorly.)
