Food Politics

Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer, who is clearly serious about sustainable food issues, just issued a new report: FoodNYC: A Blueprint for a Sustainable Food System.

Here are some of its goals:

• Promote urban agriculture
• Connect upstate and Long Island farms with downstate consumers
• Increase the sale and consumption of regionally grown foods
• Increase the number of “alternative” food markets, indoors and outdoors.
• Require a food curriculum in public schools
• Support large-scale and small-scale composting
• Increase access to drinking water fountains
• Support the rights of farm workers
• Create a Department of Food and Markets

If Manhattan can do this, other boroughs (and cities) can do this too!  Let’s do what we can to help Mr. Stringer make these work!