Your claim is farfetched, regardless of how you try to define the midwest or change the "context."

You specifically mentioned Wisconsin -- here is a map showing 6,272 grocery stores in Wisconsin (2024). It is hardly a food desert. You would have to go out of your way to bike 3 days (150-300 miles) and not encounter one of these stores, so the idea that you'd routinely be 3 days away from food is outright silly.