Chicago First City to Pass Green Food Resolution

[Guest guest]

Does it include reducing the amount of meat and other animal products?

Can we get our cities to pass similar or better resolutions?---Dan

 

 

Chicago First City to Pass Green Food Resolution

 

* * By Jennifer Lee

The New York Times, July 23, 2009

Straight to the Source

<http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/23/city-is-urged-to-provide-healthy-l\

ocally-grown-food/>

 

*http://www.organicconsumers.org/articles/article_18646.cfm

 

Environmentally friendly food practices are all the rage these days -

from organic farming at the White House to cooking manure to harness

energy from methane gases - but is there a need to codify it into

government policy?

 

Across the country, local government officials are proposing " green food

resolutions " - partially at the behest of a campaign run by Farm

Sanctuary, a farm animal protection organization.

 

This week, Chicago became the first city to pass a green food

resolution. Although the resolution is nonbinding, it urges the city to

make healthy, locally grown food more available to Chicago residents.

 

A similar bill calling for the creation of a FoodprintNYC - a play on

the Bloomberg administration's PlaNYC - has been proposed by Bill de

Blasio, a Brooklyn councilman who is running for public advocate. The

bill would encourage the city's various agencies to coordinate and

establish climate-friendly food policies and programs, as well as a

public awareness campaign about the health and environmental impact of

food. It draws heavily from recommendations in a report, " Food in the

Public Interest, " [pdf] by the office of the Manhattan borough

president, Scott M. Stringer.

 

 

>>> Read the Full Article

<http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/23/city-is-urged-to-provide-healthy-l\

ocally-grown-food/>

 

 

 

Eco-Eating at www.brook.com/veg