“Low-income people have been denied access to lifesaving technology that would protect them when they shop,” said Jessica Bartholow, policy advocate for the Western Center on Law and Poverty, a Los Angeles-based national advocacy group for disadvantaged Americans. “The belief is, if you’re out there begging for food, you don’t deserve the bells and whistles the middle class has to get their food delivered.
“Our food system is a cycle of inequality.”