'Good Food' pledge could help Cincinnati Fatima Hussein Cincinnati.com OVER-THE-RHINE Local labor activists, farmers and food worker union members say a program established in California could be a model for Cincinnati publicly funded institutions to improve their sourcing practices. The Interfaith Workers Center is part of a group studying how to implement Cincinnati's version of the [...]
San Francisco’s Schools Adopt a Good Food Framework Eli Zigas Spur Many food service institutions in the Bay Area can point to items on their menu to show that they offer healthy, sustainable and fairly made food. But it’s often unclear how deep that commitment goes across the menu as a whole. San Francisco Unified [...]
SFUSD wants its food suppliers to fork over meal sources Michael Barba San Francisco Examiner The vendors that supply food served at San Francisco’s public schools will be asked to fork over information on the sources of their meals and snacks under a resolution approved unanimously Tuesday by the Board of Education. The [...]
Teamsters Support San Francisco School Board's Adoption of Good Food Policy Press Contact: Doug Bloch International Brotherhood of Teamsters (SAN FRANCISCO) – The Teamsters applauded a unanimous vote by the San Francisco Unified School District School Board yesterday evening to adopt a policy committing to the Good Food Purchasing Program (GFPP). The GFPP [...]
San Francisco Public School District Adopts Good Food Purchasing Program Press Contact: Gentle Blythe San Francisco Public Schools May 25, 2016 (San Francisco, Ca)– The San Francisco Board of Education voted unanimously to adopt the Good Food Purchasing Program (GFPP), a metric based framework and set of tools that guides organizations to direct their [...]
The Next Wave for Good Food Pete Huff Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy Every day of the school year, more than 80,000 meals are served in the cafeterias of the Minneapolis and St. Paul Public School Districts—that’s over 1.3 million meals a year. While these school districts are two of the largest in [...]
Tracking the Ripple Effects of LA’s Good Food Purchasing Program Alexis Stephens Policy Link In 2012, the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) — the largest school district in the nation — shifted its food purchasing processes to promote equitable food systems, healthy eating, and the local economy. This shift was made possible [...]
Shaping Food Policy From The Ground Up Mark Winne Lexicon of Food The older I get, the more I’ve come to believe in the power of democracy and the role of an engaged food citizenry. Likewise, experience has taught me that when we let money and the marketplace pursue their own ends unfettered, the [...]
Can the Foodie Trend Also Help Food Workers? Michelle Chen The Nation. What your community eats is based on what feeds into your social system. In Los Angeles, on one end of the food chain, in goes massive regional agricultural production, the labor of more than a million workers, and a transnational [...]
LA School District Uses Its Spending Power to Support Local Farms, Workers’ Rights, and Kids’ Nutrition J. Mijin Cha YES! Magazine We face two equally urgent and significant crises: rising inequality and climate change. Rising inequality is not only morally unacceptable; it also hinders economic growth. Climate change is already impactingevery part of [...]
